Example sentences of "went the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 2 | As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’ |
| 3 | Sailing in a pleasant six to eight knots breeze , Peters went the right way on the first beat and managed to stay ahead throughout the race . |
| 4 | In galleries across the city , needles were passed indiscriminately from arm to arm , and along with each hit went the deadly virus . |
| 5 | went the other way . |
| 6 | The mood swoop went the other way . |
| 7 | He says that it would cost him more money if he went the other way . |
| 8 | They all we , turned round and went the other way again ! |
| 9 | We always went the other way did n't we ? |
| 10 | Mm , they had to take it off and she went the other way then |
| 11 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 12 | No no they went the other way I they were walking that way I was walking along the grass yeah . |
| 13 | If anything , we went the other way after erm how many children had Lady Macbeth , and we under-read . |
| 14 | If anything , we went the other way after erm ‘ How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth ? ’ and we under-read . |
| 15 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 16 | that one went the other night |
| 17 | Oh we went erm we went the other week |
| 18 | Well after after after doing the clipping wagons on , I went the other end er cl er knocking clips off . |
| 19 | ‘ Hmm , ’ went the real Rex Mundi to Harpo/Chico . |
| 20 | Along with these measures went the catch-all clause , introduced at the last moment by the Liberal MP Henry Labouchère outlawing all forms of male homosexual contact . |
| 21 | In the wake of Fortress Wapping out went the closed shop , restrictive practices , collective bargaining , hot-metal technology and Sogat , NGA and NUJ power . |
| 22 | I always wanted to play the guitar , though , so I went the usual route : buy the guitar and play along to records . ’ |
| 23 | So out went the playful jean and mechanic 's dungarees and in came haute couture , designer wear from around the world she was about to begin a campaign to conquer . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh shame , shame , ’ went the large men , who all had dear white-haired old mothers of their own . |
| 25 | With each sound went the silky sound of electricity . |
| 26 | By dusk Lynmouth had been reached , and next morning they went the short distance to the Valley of the Rocks , a strange and desolate dry valley running parallel to the coast and bordered by great castellated tors of rock . |
| 27 | Click-click went the little machine in Pumfrey 's brain that was card-indexing all this information , putting arrows against all the possible trails . |
| 28 | Ping went the little bell , the way some of them do . |
| 29 | Ping went the little bell . |
| 30 | After a low-key opening day , the Aberdeen tournament burst into life on finals night when Alison Bowie beat Emma Donaldson in a five-game women 's final , and then Peter Nicol inflicted defeat on Mark Maclean in the men 's decider that also went the full distance . |