Example sentences of "it went [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some people were not disinterested but wanted to see how it went with Mary before going over to one side or another . |
| 2 | It 's amazing people still remember , I mean it went off air over eight years ago . |
| 3 | It went past Rachaela , and pulled up outside the pub . |
| 4 | Now , it 's a funny thing , but in the days when there was a weekly bus service out of Baldersdale it went past Belle Vue cottage on the way to Barnard Castle and I used to look at it and say to myself , ‘ Well , that 's an ugly place , I would n't like to live there ! ’ |
| 5 | Whereas in Europe , the Nile Valley , south-west Asia and India the supreme measure of value attached to gold , in China and the Maya zone of Mesoamerica it went to jade . |
| 6 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 7 | Well i i and if it cried well you let it cry , you just let it go on crying until it was so tired it went to sleep . |
| 8 | It went to Geoffrey 's head that he 'd been cast as Mullins , the pirate . |
| 9 | erm last year it went to Manchester did n't it ? |
| 10 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 11 | ‘ As I say , it went to Canon Wheeler or perhaps it 's in his house , amongst his effects . ’ |
| 12 | They forget that the Scottish National Party 's support for renationalising what was then left of the Scottish steel industry proved of declining electoral value the closer it went to Motherwell . |
| 13 | It never told us it went to school with Dan Quayle . |
| 14 | It went to Liverpool on Friday and they were gon na do their best to get it done and |
| 15 | Up to that time coal was chiefly used as a domestic fuel but from 1812 onwards it went to sea as bunker fuel . |
| 16 | Almost certainly most of it went to Rye , the chief centre of shipbuilding , where , as well as at Playden , ropemakers were working some years later . |
| 17 | The right time was when it went to war . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I always said we would never get the title if it went to points and that 's exactly how it turned out . |
| 19 | It went to time it went through the stone door |
| 20 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 21 | Even if a Bombay or China voyage was as profitable as David Scott suggested , a vessel with excellent accommodation for passengers was likely to bring a greater reward to its commander if it went to Bengal , for the centre of government was the destination of many of the wealthier travellers . |
| 22 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 23 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 24 | It went to Chief Supt David Wood , 47 , who has been with the force since 1964 . |
| 25 | It is surely significant that when the government of newly independent Zimbabwe was seeking finance to buy out South African interests in the country 's newspapers and establishing a new framework within which its press , television and radio could operate , it went to Nigeria both for finance and for advice . |
| 26 | Estimated at £5–8,000 , it went to Colnaghi at £42,000 ( $65,436 ) . |
| 27 | This morning it went to number one this is tremendous news and from it we 're going to have A Hundred Children . |
| 28 | It also wanted parts — for which it went to Unipart . |
| 29 | Twelve years later , it went for $1.8 million ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) again , reportedly , to Ronald Fuhrer . |
| 30 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |