Example sentences of "which went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes .
2 It is difficult to assess the significance of the various negotiations which went on between the British and the Indians during the early stages of the war .
3 So er er th th there were some er quite substantial er discussions and debates which er which er which went on in the family over the years of course .
4 Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire .
5 With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village .
6 A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee .
7 That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps …
8 Ernest 's words were drowned in the call which went up from the ship , and the outburst of cheering from the Flamingo 's passengers .
9 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 ’ .
10 As vicar , the Rev W H Dale Chapman owned a piece of land which went down to the lake but , when he began to plan such a service , the idea came to him to follow the example of Christ and preach from a boat .
11 She also suffered injuries to the left side of her chest and a laceration over the eye which went down to the bone .
12 A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised .
13 It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution .
14 McMahon robbed Speed just outside the City penalty area and a sharp counterattack ended with Quinn taking the ball wide of his marker , Whyte , and beating Lukic with a thunderous drive which went in off the underside of the crossbar .
15 Dickins flapped at the ball , which went in off the post .
16 It seemed the season would start happily when Mick Harford kept up the habit of scoring on his debut with a superb 84th minute strike from 20 yards which went in off the underside of the bar .
17 Eleven minutes later Ger Burns levelled the scores with a short corner conversion and Clarke put Ireland 2–1 up with a fierce shot which went in off the crossbar after Jimmy Kirkwood had done the initial damage on the stroke of half-time .
18 The keeper excelled himself to keep out an Elliott header , but he was stranded again in injury time when Loram fired in a precise 25yarder which went in off the post .
19 All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred .
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