Example sentences of "went [adv prt] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field . |
| 2 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 3 | God knows what went on at night . |
| 4 | I do n't think it 's a boat for people like the one we went on at school . |
| 5 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 6 | In the third division Hereford could have done with some luck … they went down at home … |
| 7 | Annfield found their hopes of finishing in the top four being dimmed when they went down at home Boldon CA . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs . |
| 10 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 11 | Braintree prevented the try but were offside in doing so and went in at half-time 6–0 down . |
| 12 | It was a disastrous night for Andy Roxburgh 's men , despite the fact that they went in at half-time all square at 1-1 . |
| 13 | I think there is an element of contrariness about them but if they were really honest with themselves deep down , I do n't think they would be happy if their records went in at number 150 and they were still playing The Bull And Gate . |
| 14 | The bombs went off at lunch-time near a busy Boots chemist and a McDonalds hamburger restaurant packed with children and teenagers . |
| 15 | The taxes of 1512–15 mostly went off at half-cock , each successive subsidy being voted to remedy the deficiencies of the last : they added only about £75,000 per annum to the Crown 's revenues . |
| 16 | In the hope that deteriorating wartime conditions in Vietnam would spark insurrection , a liberation army of sorts was being formed on the border ; but when the attack went off at half-cock ( leaders executed or arrested and followers dispersed ) another threat to the French position was removed and it must have become clear that the only credible threat to French power lay in France itself , at least until the forces of nationalism were able to attract some effective outside sponsorship or else embed themselves in the people to the point where they became an organized national resistance . |
| 17 | Most pronunciamientos went off at half-cock . |
| 18 | we went up at dinner time on the next day and , because he went back after he |
| 19 | Bedelia never went out at night as she did n't want to get mugged . |
| 20 | So the woman from the first House went out at night and burnt the rival House to the ground . |
| 21 | Most people , when they went out at night or approached another village , carried a stick or a handful of stones ; if one or two dogs in a pack had been wounded the others would pick up the aggressive intention and drop back sullenly . |
| 22 | We went sailing and swimming , and once we went out at night with the fishing-boats ; we ate every meal together , and lay prone on the stone piers , reaching shoulder-deep into the water to catch the scarlet starfish , which petrified with fury when we lifted them out . |
| 23 | ‘ Bill , what would you do if one of the gang went out at night and told someone all about us , and what we 'd done ? |
| 24 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 25 | Middlesbrough Council 's crime prevention manager Linda Hobson-West said many women felt vulnerable to attack when they went out at night . |
| 26 | my dad like in South Africa my dad was telling me , when they went out at night , yeah , like if they were going to a restaurant he 'd take a kni he 'd take his gun with him and keep , it 's fucking odd man like my dad walking around with a nine millimetre strapped to his |
| 27 | he went out at quarter |
| 28 | he went out at quarter |