Example sentences of "went [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now .
2 The crash happened on March 14 when the helicopter went down while transporting 15 men from Shell 's Cormorant Alpha platform to an accommodation barge .
3 He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company .
4 She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction .
5 As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative .
6 The new deviance writers went further than suggesting that the appearance of crime ( on which positivists built their theories ) was in fact the product of the criminal justice system .
7 The HKRFU went further than asking .
8 This sometimes went further than raising the TOEFL entry fee and involved putting up guarantees for thousands of dollars for candidates .
9 Makarenko went further than making fun of educational inspectors .
10 He went back as directed , and found the man he had in mind , who was ploughing his family fields .
11 The trip to Italy went well as did the few days when one of the twins , ( full name Alexander ) was with us .
12 Despite the rising tension over the nuclear issue the new avenues of contact stipulated by the December 1990 Agreement on Reconciliation , Non-aggression , Exchange and Co-operation went ahead as scheduled .
13 It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated .
14 Mary Finnigan : ‘ A few days after the death of David 's father , the free festival went ahead as planned and the day was fabulous ; the sun shone and everybody but everybody had a wonderful time .
15 ( 12 December 1772 ) The opera went ahead as planned , though not without some mishaps , recounted by Leopold :
16 Despite the weather the blast-off went ahead as planned .
17 The Education Department would not comment directly on the court case but said it would be the responsibility of head teachers and school governors to see that tests went ahead as planned .
18 So we went ahead as planned : Beryl , Cathy Carne — you 've met Cathy ?
19 The mounting criticism of the parties did not deter de Gaulle , however , and on 21 October 1945 the election-referendum went ahead as planned .
20 The Prime Minister 's speech went ahead as planned .
21 A public meeting went ahead as planned in Leyburn last night and a petition to Parliament will still be handed to Mr Hague in the town today .
22 Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations .
23 In the name of multiprocessing-on-the-desktop , its new buzzword , Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation last week went ahead as expected ( UX No 432 ) and unveiled its latest Sparcstation 10s .
24 In the name of multiprocessing on the desktop , the company 's new buzzword , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp last week went ahead as expected and unveiled its latest Sparcstation 10s ( CI No 2,151 ) .
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