Example sentences of "went in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Everywhere he went in the tiny house he saw her : sitting at the table , sewing , on her knees , blackleading the grate , laughing at him as she handed him his cup of tea or coffee , and holding up the doll she had dressed for him to admire . |
2 | Yet reality went in the reverse direction ; the world cake was sliced vertically , not horizontally . |
3 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
4 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
5 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
6 | So two-thirds of the attackers moved round , as silently as they could , under the high perimeter walling , to the front of the establishment , whilst the remainder , leaving a small guard on the horses , went in the other direction , west-about , to the area of the broken-down curtain walls , nearer at hand . |
7 | For the mass of the population , indeed , the shift of interest arguably went in the other direction . |
8 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
9 | Instead of following Thérèse down the road that led to the centre of the village , out again , and so , eventually , to the Martin farm , she went in the other direction . |
10 | but when I went in the other week , they all sit in a circle like that , then there 's a space and the teacher stands there and she was telling a story about the independent princess who does n't fall in love with the prince in the end , it was a quite funny story |
11 | A friend of my daughter 's went in the other week and bought a little erm table off her erm and , you know , it 's quite , I mean it 's all , that 's it . |
12 | He skied his tee-shot and did n't hit enough club for his second , went in the front bunker and could n't get out . |
13 | ‘ Here , give over , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I do n't need no scrubbin' brush , I went in the public baths two weeks ago . |
14 | Some jews went in the opposite direction by expropriating a territory in Palestine ( on the grounds of an historical occupation ) to substantiate their claim to being a nation . |
15 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |
16 | There was a slight seasonal effect of gradually declining response to models , but this could not have biased the results because the response to crest accentuation went in the opposite direction , increasing significantly between early ( small crests ) presentations and the first accentuated crest presentations . |
17 | Total employment during the quarter rose 700 , but operating expenses went in the opposite direction from cost of sales , 30.3% of revenues compared with 32.5% in the year-ago quarter , as the company continued the remorseless cost-cutting drive . |
18 | She went in the opposite direction from the rock drawings , her planned destination when she had first conceived her scheme . |
19 | The two men went in the opposite direction . |
20 | I never took him again because as we went in the big dog bounded from his mistress ' side and produced a particularly sonorous blast as if in greeting . |
21 | I became very emotionally involved in the last round because everything Lee touched went in the damned hole . |
22 | Six armed and bombed-up B–17s took off at 1140hrs and flew southwards to seek the enemy , unfortunately they went in the wrong direction . |
23 | Yeah I went to , we went in the French Pyrenees this January . |