Example sentences of "[noun prp] went [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1975 , Branson went on an exploratory trip to Jamaica with his lawyer and friend Charles Levison . |
| 2 | IBM went through a similar tough patch in the early seventies ( when the ‘ Open Window ’ began to encourage early retirement at 55 ) . |
| 3 | Casey of the CIA died , taking his secrets to the grave ; Poindexter resigned ; and North went into a bizarre media limbo reserved for bogus patriots . |
| 4 | Non-commissioned officers like Zukov and Mubarak went through a similar but briefer course , and Rostov felt able to nod confidently . |
| 5 | He dominated the tie-break 7–2 and after allowing seventh-seeded Chang to hold his first service game of the third set , Sampras went on an amazing burst , running off 11 games in a row to lead 5–0 in the fourth before Chang won another game . |
| 6 | As time trouble approached , Short went for a wild kingside attack , but Karpov played well and it was Short 's king which proved the weaker . |
| 7 | Southampton playing Leeds United at the Dell went into an early lead with Rideout scoring after ten minutes . |
| 8 | Notts County at home to Oldham went into a forty second minute lead through Turner , and this all second division clash saw Notts County go further ahead through Short after sixty five minutes ; two nil the final score . |
| 9 | It was an evening when I knew Lily went to a weekly patriotic sewing and knitting circle in a near-by parish hall . |
| 10 | He widened his moronic grin into another leer while Mala went into a revolting spasm of tittering . |
| 11 | The gearbox selected neutral as Patrese went through a quick left-hander , a problem which he could have coped with had the mechanism not decided to offer him , without warning , second gear half-way through . |
| 12 | Vera went to a Quaker school in Cornwall and a short time later to school in Letchworth . |
| 13 | He turns to the writer again : ‘ Abraham Lincoln went on a three-day drunk , and you know what he say when he wake up ? ’ |
| 14 | The result was that the Seayak went for an unscheduled underwater swim round campsite bay . |
| 15 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 16 | Stood up this Kenneth went on a blind date |
| 17 | Cairns went to an easy catch by Hick at cover via a hard whack on silly-point Smith 's boot . |
| 18 | Matthews entered the game at 3–4 as Colchester went to a one-setter system . |
| 19 | Wolves were pressed back into defence , as Oxford went for an all out attack . |
| 20 | Duffy went into a 3-1 lead at the break with 76 and 37 point wins . |
| 21 | The period 1860–90 was crucial for Germany : as the German state emerged and the German self-image was formed , Prussia-Germany went through a chaotic period of social and economic transformation : a boom in canal and railway building , in the steel industry , in banking , engineering , scientific research and in developing industrial techniques had been accompanied by a war with France ; this was followed by a slump , financial collapse and a steady move to the right in political thinking . |
| 22 | FIVE YEARS ago , David Whelan went into a head-to-head battle with Nick Faldo … and won . |
| 23 | The election in Martinique Saint-Luce went to a second round in July when the PPM defeated the UDF . |
| 24 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 25 | But at 140 Willey went to a superb catch by Roberts , and at the close they were on 146 for 5 , needing another 114 . |
| 26 | Newcastle went into a six nil lead thanks to two penalties from David Johnson … the cherry and whites pulled level thanks to two penalties from full-back Tim Smith … back at the other end two more kicks from Johnson took Newacstle into a half-time lead … |
| 27 | At Manchester Ramiz Raja went to a dubious faint edge , and at Headingley some marginal decisions cost the Pakistanis dear . |
| 28 | The Arab states of the Gulf went through an eventful spell of political change in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 29 | Still coached by Dr Pietr Labuschange , Meyer went through a rigorous training schedule over the winter months and ran in quite a few cross-country races , a new experience for her . |
| 30 | The £250,000 signing from Everton went into a two-match suspension after one-game for his new club . |