Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun pl] went " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is documentary evidence that considerable numbers of Garonnais cattle went to England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and it is possible that they influenced the big , yellow-red South Devon . |
| 2 | Yesterday , as the group of cockle pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents . |
| 3 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 4 | Last box of spring greens went off horrible . |
| 5 | ( Contributions were taken from the medieval players , and fines collected for poor workmanship and the infringement of guild rules went towards financing the plays , and the more prosperous the guild the more elaborate their pageant . ) |
| 6 | Unemployment soared , and many small producers of cash crops went bankrupt . |
| 7 | TWO SERB soldiers accused of war crimes went on trial yesterday in the first attempt by Bosnia 's Muslim authorities to bring alleged perpetrators of atrocities to justice . |
| 8 | An in-house survey at one establishment found that 48 per cent of business guests went to the hotel because they wanted to use its leisure facilities . |
| 9 | The National Association of Probation Officers went into Long Lartin in Worcestershire to interview and examine the personal files of men who insist they 're innocent.Anne Nankivell reports . |
| 10 | But the system was bifurcated , because side by side with the making of development plans went the granting ( or refusal , or granting with conditions ) of planning permission for development . |
| 11 | Plenty of motor cars went in and out through the Pembroke and Gillingham Gates but it has not been suggested that there was any real night-time disturbance from traffic using the dockyard . |
| 12 | The demes were organized into three groups ( or trittyes ) , coastal , in land and city , and these were artificially aggregated into bigger units called tribes , phylai : a trittys of coastal , a trittys of inland and a trittys of city demes went to make up one of the ten tribes of Attica , each of which sent fifty councillors to Athens . |
| 13 | During those decades bands of pauper migrants went on the tramp in search of food and a living . |
| 14 | He announced his departure just before the kick-off and so Scotland 's ramshackle team of liquorice allsorts went out to face the world champions Uruguay stripped of all confidence and tactical direction . |