Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 2 | I could see what went on through the two front windows despite the 4p off Whiskas stickers , and I have to admit I was impressed . |
| 3 | One of the first things Reagan did upon becoming president was to name Iran as an enemy of America and to ensure that no trade of any kind went on between the two countries , either directly or indirectly , imposing draconian penalties for anyone caught doing so . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe this is an old-fashioned viewpoint , but last night I thought something fairly important went on between the two of us … ? ’ |
| 5 | Implicit in the rhetoric of those who campaigned for stiffer age-of-consent legislation ( and the campaign went on into the 1930s to raise it above 16 , even to 21 ) was the assumption that young working-class girls were ignorant and defenceless and could not decide for themselves . |
| 6 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 7 | This research went on throughout the Eighties , attracting huge investment . |
| 8 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
| 9 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 10 | they lost by six at Crewe … won by five against Colchester … and then went down in an eight goal bonanza last week … |
| 11 | Anne 's daddy looked at the mistletoe in the apple-tree when they reached Sundial Cottage and then went in with the three Brownies to see Miss Miggs . |
| 12 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
| 13 | You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian . |
| 14 | Stairs on the right went up to the sixteen guest rooms . |
| 15 | He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately . |
| 16 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 17 | These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit . |
| 18 | How many businesses that went up in the 1980s might now come down ? |
| 19 | I thought that phrase went out with the 1980s . |
| 20 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
| 21 | To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct . |
| 22 | She picked it up , went back to the two girls and dumped it unceremoniously over Peggy 's head . |
| 23 | As the line that seemingly connects the two circle centres needed close scrutiny , I went back to the 1:25,000 scale maps or the area and laid a straight edge along the apparent intersection . |
| 24 | In Manchester , the gangs were known as ‘ Scuttlers ’ — a word which went back to the 1880s — and their gang fights and rowdyism as ‘ Scuttling ’ or ‘ Scuttles ’ . |
| 25 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 26 | The Baath was no overnight creation , but went back to the 1940s when it was conceived by the Syrian duo , Salahuddin Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who later fostered branches in a number of Arab states . |
| 27 | The problem of organization went back to the 1881 Scheme which Higginson If I understood that Scheme at all " — took to mean that the two schools ( Upper and Lower ) were to he united absolutely into one . |
| 28 | More than 7,000 firms went under in the three months to September — the highest number since the recession began . |