Example sentences of "went [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went off the second board and I had to get out cos I felt sick . |
| 2 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 3 | Annie 's voice all but went off the chromatic scale when Kelly told her that she was turning down Ibn Fayoud 's invitation . |
| 4 | They went off the next day and recorded the track for the ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ LP , it was awful , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |
| 6 | A rather attractive hexagonal room that went off the main library which seemed sort of ideal for study purposes , or teaching purposes that were associated with the library . |
| 7 | ‘ Down at Atholl , when you went for the new blades , ’ his wife answered from beside the fireplace . |
| 8 | In fact , I went for the entire two months without seeing anyone . |
| 9 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 10 | Er I myself went for the nearest exit which was out a window , I assume everyone else erm panicked and I could hear quite a few people running running down the corridor from the first floor . |
| 11 | At Anderson 's a Georgian inlaid mahogany chest on chest went for the princely price of £1,300 while A Victorian 4 foot 6 inc bed with raised back made £1,100 and a Georgian inlaid mahogany serpentine front library table realised £1,050 . |
| 12 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 13 | That went for the washed cup and saucer from the last cup of tea too . |
| 14 | He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types . |
| 15 | If they went for the traditional look I suppose they 'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 17 | After his success in rebuilding morale in Scotland , Chris Green went for the big one — London . |
| 18 | Mm I went for the wrong one oh your turn |
| 19 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 20 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |
| 21 | So the Irish went for the next best thing , consultative status , getting a toe in the door . |
| 22 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 23 | Do n't want people to think Walter went for the tartish type . |
| 24 | I suppose it depended on whether you went for the older man , which , speaking for herself , Rosie did n't and never had done and was , anyway , leaving to stay with the Spratlings at Porto Ercole and then , perhaps , driving down to Rome to see poor old Jack Gerontius , who had n't long to go , and after that , who knew ? |
| 25 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 26 | That 's the way it went for the whole tour . |
| 27 | ‘ A word about your weapons , gentlemen , ’ he smarmed , then he went for the quick draw and levelled a long-barrelled pistol at all of us . |
| 28 | Finally , on Saturday 23 June , the Wordsworths left Alfoxden , and went for the last time down the wooded lane through the deer park , past the beech trees and hollies where , on a day in March , they had sheltered from a hail storm , past Christopher Tricky 's hovel near the dog pound , and past the ‘ loud Waterfall ’ , whose sound would always echo in their memories . |
| 29 | I went for the last fitting of my dress . |
| 30 | Anyone who indulged in it for its own sake was an out-and-out sinner — and that went for the resulting offspring , too . ’ |