Example sentences of "[noun] went " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 2 | Well , the seven journalists went round the classrooms , looking at the well-scrubbed , well-fed , well-clothed children . |
| 3 | Markby went back to the living room where the Queen 's Speech was finished , Matthew and Emma were watching a film and Emily had been sick . |
| 4 | Neighbours who were not so well thought of stood and watched at gun-point , while their homes went up in flames . |
| 5 | Perhaps , like the lungfish of today , they lived in pools that were seasonal and used lungs and legs to search for other water when their homes went dry . |
| 6 | NEW low cost homes went on sale in Middlesbrough yesterday marking the start of a key housing projects linked with the town 's City Challenge cash bid . |
| 7 | The nature of the old system also illustrates the way ‘ notches ’ or ‘ traps ’ are introduced into the pay system in that as an employee moved from , say , £74 to £75 a week , NICs went from 2 to 7 per cent of all income . |
| 8 | ‘ Most of the sequences went well , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Fabia was still in stunned surprise that her Volkswagen Polo was going to be towed by a Mercedes when the stranger went to the rear of her car and she had to snap out of her shock to steer . |
| 10 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 11 | Poor Ned , cruel with his jealousy , who had already made it clear to her that as soon as Captain Goldsborough went away again — as he surely would — to see to his interests in Antigua and Martinique , then she would have to give Ned exactly what he wanted . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll never forget that day Portugal went 3-0 down to North Korea in the '66 World Cup , and he pulled them round single-handed with four goals . |
| 13 | Relations with the Vatican had been broken off in 1861 but Pope John Paul II visited Mexico in 1990 [ see p. 37475 ] while Salinas went to the Vatican in July 1991 . |
| 14 | Er you know erm the letter , the reply went back from Dave saying that every you know , possible thing was done to get bilingual staff but at the end of the day you know they could n't come up with the goods . |
| 15 | Chupp says the correlation of events is important because it lets ground-based observers know what to look for ; it is possible that earlier observations of solar neutrons went unrecognised . |
| 16 | Wainfleet went on as the drinks arrived : ‘ All sorts of folk have their reasons for wanting other people 's private business , or their own , published . |
| 17 | When Stox went under it became a laughing stock . |
| 18 | After the 1987 election , Labour went through a contorted ‘ consultation ’ to find out what it should think . |
| 19 | all of the first term went ah just like that |
| 20 | Young Reggie Sangston went round making sure all the lights were off , except the ones in the servants ' rooms and in the sitting-room where we were . |
| 21 | Although these depended for their success on voluntary support , the Association went on to lobby for new towns sponsored by the State . |
| 22 | " Bloody filthy accumulating middle-class creeps " — and papers , jars , boots , rags went hurtling through the trap around Mary and Reggie . |
| 23 | The Oil , Labour and Social Affairs , Islamic Affairs , Commerce and Industry , Justice , and Education ministries went to deputies who ran broadly anti-government campaigns during the elections . |
| 24 | The funeral cortege went slowly past Wormwood Scrubs prison , up past the wagon works and on to Saint Mary 's Roman Catholic Cemetery at the top of Scrubs Lane . |
| 25 | Miss Pinkney went scarlet . |
| 26 | Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work . |
| 27 | The wider effects , as has been observed , were not measurable , though the export advantages were probably reduced to the extent that investment went to highly developed economies . |
| 28 | of inward investment went to the west midlands . |
| 29 | A large chunk of the £4 million investment went on improvements in the mill to increase production capacity — operations manager gives us the details . |
| 30 | Most of the leading Conservatives who might have hoped to succeed him were disqualified as supporters of the Lloyd George Coalition , and the succession went to the relatively unknown Chancellor of the Exchequer , Stanley Baldwin . |