Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun pl] went [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the grooms went round to make sure she was in foal before he took the money . |
| 2 | As the film ended and the lights went up , Nicholson got a surprising reaction . |
| 3 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 4 | Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out . |
| 5 | We plunged floorwards , and the lights went out . |
| 6 | While Yanto ordered the drinks , Billy and the girls went over to the big open fireplace . |
| 7 | ( They were not amused ; he was ordered to leave the premises at once , and the guardians went on to celebrate one or other event in their own way by providing extra diet for the inmates . |
| 8 | The drink made his lips and tongue tingle ; his throat felt sore and the fumes went up his nose and down into his lungs . |
| 9 | The last time in Norwich about six years ago , and then there were five Magistrates out , and the sittings went on , for between two and three days . |
| 10 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 11 | The girls , spurred on by their victory went on to win their next league match and the boys went on to play for England football and cricket teams . |
| 12 | The life of the river and the riverbanks went on about us . |
| 13 | Nutty stopped , and the others went on . |
| 14 | The GB and Ireland team went wild , rushing across the green to swamp their Scottish saviour and the celebrations went on long into the night , and the morning too . |
| 15 | And the celebrations went on long into the night … they could n't have done any better Down Under . |
| 16 | And the brickworks went out of business . |
| 17 | Because when Jesus was born the the Roman soldiers were there and the kind at that time Herod ordered that all babies were killed and the Romans went out to do that did n't they ? |
| 18 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 19 | I got the yarn free and the needles went back to where I wanted them , returned the carriage and went across . |
| 20 | And the eyes went up and down and then they were going up and down . |
| 21 | The hallway was repeated on the first floor , with the entrance to the next flat , and the stairs went on , to stop at a narrow landing , with another door opening from it . |
| 22 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 23 | Phoebe knew when she had reached the lump , but the fingers went on circling , and then probing her armpit . |
| 24 | A huge cow bell was rung at the end of the chukka , but the boys went on playing . |
| 25 | ‘ But the boys went in and ran things their way , ’ Randi said . |
| 26 | Anne was afraid that John would soon be sent abroad but the months went by and he was still in England . |
| 27 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |
| 28 | But the weeks went by . |
| 29 | After a little , the rain stopped but the trees went on dripping . |
| 30 | But the pilgrimages went on , and have never ceased ; and there is another element of continuity between the tenth and the twelfth centuries : Rome was a city of turbulence and riots . |