Example sentences of "went [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The referee then went off the field to consult an officer at the touchline who waved us off the pitch . |
| 2 | ‘ We touched wheels and nearly went off the road , ’ he grinned . |
| 3 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
| 4 | ‘ The night coach went off the road . |
| 5 | The headlights , in their blackout cowls , threw about as much light as a candle , and finally they went off the road . |
| 6 | Another car swerved on a patch of oil , Nigel tried to avoid him , and went off the road . ’ |
| 7 | Britain 's Malcolm Wilson , who was in seventh position after the first day , went off the road during the 17th stage . |
| 8 | But when Britain went off the Gold Standard in 1931 , the Champagne houses found themselves receiving just two-thirds of the price they had come to expect . |
| 9 | Most of the electrics went off the board with damp and the violent motion by the time we thankfully dropped anchor off Clovelly near the Bristol Class Lifeboat on station there . |
| 10 | ‘ I went off the idea , ’ I said . |
| 11 | Had he missed the cut , Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday , since the network went off the air with about an hour 's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain . |
| 12 | For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out . |
| 13 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
| 14 | The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer . |
| 15 | It 's a second for Gary , it 's a fourth for Notts and er the little bit of tension that Notts had created for themselves as they went off the boil and came really into the game with their two goals from first of all and then from from the free kick , but 's goal in the last minute here making it four two and really capping a most entertaining night for Notts . |
| 16 | In a quiet way , he went off the handle . |
| 17 | In terms of engineering , the BRMs were behind their time ; the cars gave endless trouble ; Jackie 's dissatisfactions grew ; accidents intervened , especially at a rain-soaked Spa where Jackie went off the track at high speed and lay trapped in his car , his shoulder broken , his ribs cracked and petrol from his ruptured tanks soaking through his overalls , burning his skin . |
| 18 | Starting twelfth , Hunt got caught in a battle with Tom Pryce and went off the track and into a sand trap . |
| 19 | Afterwards , with her foursome , she changed into her swim suit and went for a bathe before lunch . |
| 20 | SAILOR John Worthington went for a drink — and triggered an air-sea hunt . |
| 21 | After we came up out of the dank womb of the pit , we went for a drink in the welfare club . |
| 22 | Nancy then told them , in so low a voice that the listener round the corner could hardly hear her , where Monks often went for a drink , and what he looked like . |
| 23 | At eleven o'clock Tony went for a drink , but the bottle was empty . |
| 24 | Dad told them he went for a drink to the pub at Goldsithney , that he left at about nine and came straight home . ’ |
| 25 | If they went for a drink everybody was calling them scabs and if they went anywhere then , some some had their cars sprayed with paint and oh they had everything done , they were all against them . |
| 26 | And then when we went for a drink he used to say are you not buying me a drink ? |
| 27 | ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley . |
| 28 | He now ate what I cooked , and went for a drive when I had time . |
| 29 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 30 | Why was Mrs Thatcher upset when her son went for a drive in 1982 ? |