Example sentences of "[num] [noun] went [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea . |
| 2 | The three months went quickly and , as in Jamaica , it involved language , cross-cultural and technical training . |
| 3 | Three weeks went by before I saw him again and that was the day the coach left Sweetmary . |
| 4 | Three weeks went by and we were back at the vet 's surgery . |
| 5 | The first three years went well and the business continued to expand . |
| 6 | Fourteen words went down before he stopped , hand slackening , thoughts dipping back to the girl he had seen late last night in the coffee bar . |
| 7 | Fully ten minutes went by before Katherine spoke . |
| 8 | Five minutes went by as she reflected that Rosemary must be feeling as miserable as Travis , then , checking to see that Travis was all right as she passed , she went to bed . |
| 9 | So she thought then , but , when another fifteen minutes went by and her phone stayed silent , rebellion once more bombarded the cool and calm front she was trying to erect . |
| 10 | In Bangladesh , for instance , the birth rate in one village went up after the pill was introduced : because it both interfered with lactation ( 90 per cent of the users were lactating mothers — and lactation is known to help prevent ovulation ) , and was abandoned by 80 per cent of the women because of side effects . |
| 11 | One lad went back because his father went back . |
| 12 | This was the line that commuters had been asked to switch to avoid the chaos caused by the night 's earlier bombings … at Reading , where one device went off and another was defused , and at Basingstoke , where the device was also defused . |
| 13 | One lass went down and she had some glass or something , and she was threatening to slash her wrists and there was a screw shouting , ‘ Well do it . |
| 14 | Three , four months went by until only two routes for selling them remained unexplored . |
| 15 | Two planes went over but he did n't look up . |
| 16 | My mother said she thought the two qualities went together and Lili said they did n't : not necessarily , and in many cases they were mutually exclusive . |
| 17 | While the steamer was on the sandbank HE and I and one or two others went ashore and spent an hour in a village on the bank . |