Example sentences of "went [prep] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out . |
| 2 | But I think if you went for the figure as proposed by the H B F , you would be going actively against the regeneration statutory which is the erm the government 's policy . |
| 3 | The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board : |
| 4 | They went into the school as the girls brought out the ponies , a docile , shiny lot compared with the animals at home , Hoomey decided . |
| 5 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 6 | The young Mary Pickford went into the industry as the Progressive phase approached its zenith , and for Griffith she played criminals and prostitutes ; she went on to portray a whole variety of poor hard-done-by girls , many of them immigrants , many of them immoral or pregnant , before in 1916 she played a factory worker in the most memorably titled of all the films of this era The Eternal Grind . |
| 7 | People came out of the forest and went into the forest as they had done for centuries , making the deep tracks down Steep Ridgery . |
| 8 | That evening she went round the farm as usual , lighting her lamp whenever necessary , to check that all the animals were safe . |
| 9 | Philip went to the door as his Dad came in . |
| 10 | Bosses of operators Swansea-Cork Ferries went to the ship as soon as they learned of the tragedy . |
| 11 | So you went to the party as well ? |
| 12 | Next morning he went to the prison as usual . |
| 13 | The next day , he went to the stables as arranged , and the meeting with Grégoire took place . |
| 14 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 15 | Standards went by the board as they sensed a chance to break Drexel 's dominance of the junk-bond business . |
| 16 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |