Example sentences of "went [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTT Garthwaite 's mum Susan thought he would never hear again when he went deaf at the age of two . |
| 2 | She went weak at the thought . |
| 3 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 4 | Well they knew that I was a graduate in erm , they had two , they had a , a lab manager and an assistant , and they both went sick at the same time , and er , they asked me if I 'd do it . |
| 5 | He played in 20 Test matches and his post-war service to Yorkshire included three years as Club president , a position he vacated sadly when he found his calls for moderation went unheeded at the height of the Boycott controversy . |
| 6 | Sadly , our voice went unheard at the time . |
| 7 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 8 | I know about this bit from a telephone call from John — and I can still remember the click as the line went dead at the end of that conversation . |
| 9 | I went scarlet at the word ‘ knickers ’ . |