Example sentences of "a [noun] went [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | There was never a horse went out unless that tail was done up . |
2 | But if a war went badly and looked likely to drag on , that would be a calamity not just in its own right . |
3 | However , it was not to be ; the Edison company preferred to market the phonograph as a dictation machine , and nearly a decade went by before cylinder moulding became a commercial reality . |
4 | Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots . |
5 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
6 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
7 | Then at last a cheer went up as the first portions of the ‘ bicentenary pie ’ were served to the 50,000 people who presented their £1 tickets . |
8 | BLACKPOOL : A bit of a cheer went up when the news came through last week in Brighton of the Government 's humiliation at the hands of the Bundesbank . |
9 | Almost a month went by before she allowed herself an evening to realise that there was at the very least and latest , an unfinished conversation between them . |
10 | A chair went over and Singer rolled through the mush of food , trying to gain his feet . |
11 | A half-hour went by before I finally decided I was n't going to feel fine ever again . |
12 | A groan went up that Charlie reckoned must have been heard in the middle of Edinburgh . |
13 | In the past it seems a lot went further and either provided the workers with documentation of their relationship which labelled them as employees or , and contrary to the requirements of the Employment Agencies Act , failed to specify that they were not . |
14 | The pair , both of Bridgeview Drive , Inverness , had fled in heavy snow after an alarm went off and police had followed their footprints . |