Example sentences of "went [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I went off the second board and I had to get out cos I felt sick .
2 Annie 's voice all but went off the chromatic scale when Kelly told her that she was turning down Ibn Fayoud 's invitation .
3 They went off the next day and recorded the track for the ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ LP , it was awful , ’ he says .
4 Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning .
5 A rather attractive hexagonal room that went off the main library which seemed sort of ideal for study purposes , or teaching purposes that were associated with the library .
6 ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace .
7 Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors .
8 Er I myself went for the nearest exit which was out a window , I assume everyone else erm panicked and I could hear quite a few people running running down the corridor from the first floor .
9 At Anderson 's a Georgian inlaid mahogany chest on chest went for the princely price of £1,300 while A Victorian 4 foot 6 inc bed with raised back made £1,100 and a Georgian inlaid mahogany serpentine front library table realised £1,050 .
10 The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies .
11 That went for the washed cup and saucer from the last cup of tea too .
12 If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore .
13 ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily .
14 If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society .
15 When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used .
16 Do n't want people to think Walter went for the tartish type .
17 I suppose it depended on whether you went for the older man , which , speaking for herself , Rosie did n't and never had done and was , anyway , leaving to stay with the Spratlings at Porto Ercole and then , perhaps , driving down to Rome to see poor old Jack Gerontius , who had n't long to go , and after that , who knew ?
18 I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’
19 That 's the way it went for the whole tour .
20 ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us .
21 Finally , on Saturday 23 June , the Wordsworths left Alfoxden , and went for the last time down the wooded lane through the deer park , past the beech trees and hollies where , on a day in March , they had sheltered from a hail storm , past Christopher Tricky 's hovel near the dog pound , and past the ‘ loud Waterfall ’ , whose sound would always echo in their memories .
22 I went for the last fitting of my dress .
23 Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’
24 Of course Wooderson could get things wrong — like the time he went for the British mile record and broke the world time .
25 One year older than Leonard , he went through the varying experiences of adolescence with him , sharing not least Leonard 's musical interest ( Morton played both the banjo and the trombone ) , as well as a variety of pastimes and a healthy interest in the fairer sex .
26 Venner wandered off and we went through the pathetic pile of possessions : a counter-pane , three dirty bolsters , hose , jerkins , battered boots , more cheap jewellery , a collection of quills and a bar of Castilian soap .
27 She went through the remaining months of her pregnancy in a turmoil of doubt , anxiety and frustration .
28 Tom Pritchard , the manager , went through the key points of the car-hire catechism to be faced by every client :
29 Right last Friday we went through the four stages of selling .
30 " Your mother will tell you this evening , " he said , and the sound of the horses ' hooves echoed on flagstones as they went through the arched entrance into the yard .
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