Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive .
2 Cos th I remember the first time I went down that way over the bridge .
3 Just less than half the money created went down that drain .
4 So when the sun went down that night , and indeed .
5 And the , the price was thirty nine pounds and as far as I know at the time the , the pianos went down that terrace I do n't think anybody could play it properly .
6 ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’
7 Remember we went down that slate mine ?
8 ‘ You went down each time ?
9 He and the policeman took me to a lift and we went down many floors .
10 We went down we went down both shutes .
11 And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate .
12 We went down this park cos we wanted
13 But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good !
14 She only went down this morning .
15 In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards .
16 Oh I almost went down another step that was n't there !
17 Public sector negotiators knew the consequences if they went over that limit , though in practice the Treasury might relent a little with groups like nurses and fund part of the extra settlement .
18 When I went off that morning Bill did not recognize me .
19 The fire alarm went off that evening — Tuesday , November 24 .
20 ‘ Perhaps that 's why our water went off this morning , ’ Peggy mused .
21 A whisper went up that Gogarth was a possibility and panicky looks were cast around the room .
22 Then , faster than she 'd ever climbed before , she went up that tree .
23 It 's true you know if a di if a child did come out the gate , with that wee fella yesterday I saw him he was with Ryan and he went up that path like lightning .
24 Howard 's pompous manner changed , his voice went up several decibels .
25 ‘ Was the door locked when you went up this morning ? ’ asked Mary .
26 They went up some dark and broken stairs .
27 I tell you , I went up those steps faster than a scalded faggot , propelled by a barbarous diuretic terror on behalf of my exposed rear end The heavy door at the top did n't give until the fifth push , but by then I had turned , and seen the shrugging figures as they retreated into the light , and now I could hear only laughter .
28 Another , born in Ireland , whose son was a Yorkshire steelworks labourer , also liked a daily drink , but went out each night to the pub and was back regularly as it was ‘ just turned seven ’ .
29 Er yes a lot of folk went out that way with their ponies er in fact that 's how they used to take the men when any Glen Shee person died in Glen Ayloch they took them out that way to the kirk here in Glen Shee kirk .
30 I believe he went out that night with the Frenchman , whoever he is , and crossed the Forth .
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