Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Marge ? ’ offered Ivy , in a frank , open tone , and tea went through such stages as could be managed in those days of austerity .
2 In the election of October 1974 , 25 per cent of the vote went to third-party candidates and they secured thirty-nine seats in the Commons .
3 The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through .
4 Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot .
5 The industry went into rapid reverse .
6 The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning .
7 Then followed the war years and members of the Brigade went on active service .
8 The new machine went into full production around mid-February , operated by a team of five casters .
9 The Mark III version of the Marsh machine went into commercial production and now no gentleman 's laboratory is complete without one .
10 That means that the court has to consider the position immediately before an emergency protection order , if there was one , or an interim care order , if that was the initiation of protection , or , as in this case , when the child went into voluntary care .
11 England defender Pallister was charged with keeping United alive , against a dour Moscow side , once the shoot-out went to sudden death .
12 England defender Pallister was charged with keeping United alive , against a dour Moscow side , once the shoot-out went to sudden death .
13 Finally , although the committee went to great lengths to argue the case for and against integration , have they not indeed simply rationalised the status quo ?
14 This work went through three editions , each time augmented , the last being in the mid nineteenth century .
15 Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was
16 Needless to say , standards of rug-making went into rapid decline , and , exacerbated by the widespread introduction of poor quality dyes , the reputation of Anatolian rugs soon reached an all-time low from which it has only recently recovered .
17 Discarded clothing went to good causes .
18 Because he 'd wound so much of it around his hand , the bundle went with some weight and accuracy and then tumbled , unravelling like a falling spider , on the other side .
19 The airmen and women 's families turned out in force to watch , and top billing at the biggest farewell bash in town went to those masters of precision flying , The Red Arrows .
20 Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense .
21 The teacher went through each step and the children answered in unison .
22 Both treatments were effective in inducing clinical remission : 15 of the 17 patients given steroids and 12 of the 15 patients assigned to the polymeric diet went into clinical remission ( defined by a Van Hees index < within four weeks of treatment .
23 ‘ We hope that birth will be given to a document which will allow the coordinated action of European countries against the undesirable effects of increasing illegal migration which worry us all , ’ Boross said before the meeting went into closed session .
24 Most of the cash went on new clothes for both adults and children .
25 Since January , when the package went on limited release in the US , the company says it has been installed in over a dozen sites including MCI Communications Corp , Xerox Corp and American Express Co .
26 Yesterday 's bomb went off 20 minutes after a warning was telephoned to Waterloo railway station that there was a device at the Stock Exchange .
27 Unfortunately , many of my letters home miscarried , because , Turkey being neutral until towards the end of the war , the post went through enemy-occupied Europe : I do not know what the Nazi censors made of some of my missives .
28 Jane and Laura 's group went with Snowy Owl .
29 oh , that stuff went in that stuff
30 Given the price of the chips , audacious launch of the day went to Advanced Logic Research Inc which claims to have desktop , Pentium-based machines starting at $2,500 .
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