Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | The Ka remained an integral part of the individual during his lifetime but at death went on to some future existence . |
2 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
3 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
4 | They went on for some way in silence . |
5 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
6 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
7 | It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes . |
8 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
9 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
10 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
11 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
12 | This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell . |
13 | After these exchanges , fighting in Kurdestan went on for some considerable time . |
14 | This went on for some time . |
15 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
16 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
17 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
18 | The village started half-alive about her , lights went on in some windows , then off again as the daylight strengthened . |
19 | I went along to some services and again I saw how happy people were . |
20 | The figure shows that the rates of caesarean sections , epidural anaesthesia , and forceps and vacuum extractions went down in some maternity units but increased in most of them . |
21 | In the last week , Italian politics became even more chaotic than usual , and Germany went in for some ‘ neo-Nazism ’ . |
22 | He went in for some pretty awful names , Robbie decided — first Sybil , now Petula . |
23 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
24 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
25 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
26 | ‘ You went out with some of them , did n't you , ’ said Sarah good-humouredly . |
27 | ‘ She went out with some men , yes , when she was here . |
28 | Joe cleared his table , put his carpet-bag in the larder , locked the door and went out for some fresh air and to get an evening paper , afternoon edition . |
29 | We both winced and I went back to some more work on the sulphonamides , and he to dressing his patients . |
30 | These developments also reveal a basic change in the conception of the travelling agent whose existence went back in some form to the beginning of organised antislavery in the 1780s . |