Example sentences of "in [adj] went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lambeth , for example , about one-quarter of expenditure in 1979–80 went to the voluntary sector , which was represented on appropriate committees ( Spooner , 1980 ) . |
| 2 | er in Spain , because we reckoned it was only donkey that went in that went into the er burro as they call it , went into the went into the soup , you know with the beans and er er er various types of lentils and so on . |
| 3 | it would n't split in half went for it and |
| 4 | Yet the reality is that very little money spent on science is spent on improving social welfare ; as Rose ( 1986 ) has pointed out , 50 per cent of the government 's science and technology budget in 1981–2 went on military research and development . |
| 5 | The reduction in the number of candidates had a side effect in that no count in 1975 went beyond 12 stages whereas in 1973 two counts reached 18 stages . |
| 6 | The same anonymous writer who heard Spurgeon in 1884 went across the river to the City Temple but again was not complimentary : ‘ If you can forgive a bad delivery with occasional dropping of aspirates , and the incessant introduction of Gladstonian politics in connection with holy things , you will find in Dr Parker 's sermons much that is impressive and certainly a great deal that is novel . ’ |
| 7 | Beverley and Liverpool reformers in 1824 went to the point of envisaging no substantial changes in the structure of West Indian agriculture with the arrival of emancipation . |
| 8 | The first known Chinese student to go abroad was Yung Wing , who in 1847 went to the USA . |
| 9 | The mail coaches which were introduced in 1783 went at around 8 miles an hour , 2 miles faster than the riding horses . |
| 10 | These two reports remain the source of almost all the information about the eruption ; the Royal Society in particular went to great lengths to amass every possible scrap of information and even inserted a notice in The Times requesting anyone who had seen or heard anything to come forward . |
| 11 | Willans left Hunter & English and in 1880 went into partnership with Mark Robinson and founded the Ferry Works , Thames Ditton , Surrey , to build both engines and boats . |
| 12 | After Shivling , Steve returned to Seattle and in 1982 went to Yosemite . |
| 13 | In 1978 he became marketing manager in General Chemicals and in 1982 went to ICI 's Agricultural Division as general manager , industrial chemicals . |
| 14 | ( Only 2 per cent of the levy raised in 1990-91 went to renewables ; 98 per cent went to nuclear power . ) |
| 15 | He was also active as a physician and in 1280 went to Flanders to treat the nephew of the count . |