Example sentences of "[conj] went [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 2 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 3 | Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp . |
| 4 | It was precisely that peculiar combination of laisser-faire rule over the kingdom at large , but absolute personal involvement with all that went on at the centre , in institutional as well as individual and personal affairs , which is the notable quality of kingship in Scotland and explains the high level of prestige and control which the crown enjoyed . |
| 5 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 6 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 7 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 8 | Looking around the cobbled farmyard and at the farm buildings , the shelling and mortaring that went on during the attack on Breville had taken its toll . |
| 9 | But he strongly disapproved of the proselytizing that went on under the cloak of humanitarianism . |
| 10 | TMI did much to reemphasise the importance of these techniques in the assessment work that went on after the accident . |
| 11 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 12 | Well it was just a a guild for women who could take their knitting and have a cup of tea and discuss everything that went on in the Cooperative , you know . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 14 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 15 | The soul-searching that went on in the security community , in the think tanks and universities throughout the United States in 1990 gives some hint of that ‘ sense of loss ’ . |
| 16 | Nothing that went on in the town was a secret for long . |
| 17 | These examples give only a hint of the technical finagling that went on in the research centres . |
| 18 | Despite all the scheming and matchmaking that went on behind the scenes , when Charles and Diana took their wedding vows on 29 July 1981 , they were undoubtedly in love . |
| 19 | The Canterbury batsman also recalled some of the fun that went on behind the scenes of that tour . |
| 20 | Where the book scores is in its revelations about attitudes towards opera management and about deals that went on behind the scenes . |
| 21 | There was no desk , only a big bed someone had made up with whose sheets she did not know , an armchair and a table , a cupboard , a window through which the passing trains could be seen , tube trains and Metropolitan trains and the trains that went up to the Chilterns . |
| 22 | And er , dad was at the farm and we , there were ba paths that went up to the house see . |
| 23 | Almost the first store that went up in the rioting was , predictably enough , that of Mrs Soon . |
| 24 | I was a little confused at one point — after one of Leeds smooth silky passing movements in the first half , which ended in a shot that went just over the bar I think , most of the ground broke into applause . |
| 25 | Only in London and Liverpool was there any tradition of Mat building that went back to the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Techniques that went back to the age of Aristotle and the scholars of Alexandria were married to contemporary nations , among then the idea , conceived in the time of Leibnitz , of a historiography based on the study of original documents ; and the marriage bore fruit . |
| 27 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 28 | and , and it went , cos it was quite a bit more worth petrol that went all over the place . |
| 29 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |
| 30 | There was quite a gang of us that went down to the station — four Walshes and me . |