Example sentences of "went [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 2 | We were to have an even closer encounter with a bear before we left Edgeøya , when we went ashore at the south end of the island at Andre/1e Tangen . |
| 3 | They went home at the end of the afternoon , just is the cloud slid back like a shutter and let clear yellow light stream along the valley from the west . |
| 4 | They were meant to be devoid of personal feelings , deadpan , like lawyers who had to defend a case they did n't believe in , who went home at the end of the day leaving all their patients ' foibles filed away in their consulting rooms . |
| 5 | The old car went well at the start of the season , but attention to detail was wanting . |
| 6 | Mr Franklin went there at the end of the 1970s , after the collapse of Keyser Ullman , the merchant bank where he was a director that was rescued by the Bank of England . |
| 7 | Despite the destruction , church services went ahead at the weekend in five churches in Armagh as workmen continued to clear up after the IRA bomb attack on the courthouse . |