Example sentences of "went the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sailing in a pleasant six to eight knots breeze , Peters went the right way on the first beat and managed to stay ahead throughout the race . |
| 2 | If anything , we went the other way after erm how many children had Lady Macbeth , and we under-read . |
| 3 | If anything , we went the other way after erm ‘ How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth ? ’ and we under-read . |
| 4 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 5 | And erm when Because we went the first day of our holidays , right away , to Deerness to my mother 's people . |
| 6 | Linda jumped out and went the few paces to the garage , unlocking the door and sliding it part way open . |
| 7 | With each sound went the silky sound of electricity . |
| 8 | By dusk Lynmouth had been reached , and next morning they went the short distance to the Valley of the Rocks , a strange and desolate dry valley running parallel to the coast and bordered by great castellated tors of rock . |
| 9 | Click-click went the little machine in Pumfrey 's brain that was card-indexing all this information , putting arrows against all the possible trails . |
| 10 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 11 | Then a double take as Jack Russell went the same way for a disappointing 3 . |
| 12 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 13 | The two others continued till 1973 , when the closure of the Evening Citizen meant that no town outside London was supporting more than one evening paper — and London went the same way in 1980 . |
| 14 | But even he could do nothing about a shot from Bishop which flashed past a group of players from the edge of the area but went the wrong side of the post and a header by Martin seconds from time which was cleared off the line . |
| 15 | But Cantona 's firm header went the wrong side of an upright — and Drysdale made Leeds pay . |