Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] went [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 2 | Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's . |
| 3 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 4 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 5 | Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink . |
| 6 | At the well they left their books and went down to the shore . |
| 7 | Australia 's captain Phil Kearns is a confirmed fan , revealing : ‘ We talked about no shoving in the front row before the kick-off , but after five minutes that went out of the window . |
| 8 | To her surprise he jerked to his feet and went over to the video machine and yanked the cassette out without rewinding it . |
| 9 | I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics . |
| 10 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 11 | Ellen was polishing the furniture with beeswax , but collected her cloths and went out of the room wordlessly when Paul entered , shutting the door after her . |
| 12 | Ranulf humoured him and , once they were through the Galilee Gate , handed over the promised coins and went back to the guest house . |
| 13 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 14 | I stopped taking my testosterone tablets and went back on the dole again . |
| 15 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |
| 16 | She gathered her pages of notes and went out into the sunlit streets . |
| 17 | Michael had long eyelashes and freckles that went down inside the neck of his uniform . |
| 18 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |
| 19 | She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room . |
| 20 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | How many businesses that went up in the 1980s might now come down ? |
| 23 | Where the book scores is in its revelations about attitudes towards opera management and about deals that went on behind the scenes . |
| 24 | She picked her way over the scattered things and went on to the balcony . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Laughing at this last jibe , she swept some papers into her arms and went over to the far side of the nurses ' station , where files were stored , leaving Belinda relieved to be alone . |
| 30 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |