Example sentences of "went [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards . |
| 2 | We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more . |
| 3 | Oh , it was a disaster , he was er my estimation of him went down a hundred percent because she smoked |
| 4 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 6 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
| 7 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 8 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 9 | When they got there , they went up an outside flight of stairs , then Julius took a bunch of keys out of his pocket . |
| 10 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 11 | And then Ted and I went out a little bit later and we sa , we found two goldfish and two golden |
| 12 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 13 | Although ‘ systematization ’ struck many of its critics in the West in 1988–89 as an insane novelty , in fact its roots went back a long way . |
| 14 | Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way . |
| 15 | After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way . |
| 16 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 17 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 18 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |