Example sentences of "[noun] went [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study published last year by the Rand Corporation , a think-tank in California , found that 88% of the money spent by insurers went on legal fees and other paperwork costs . |
| 2 | That 's why sports cars went through such doldrums for so many years too , and shy we think of the sudden plethora of ‘ traditional ’ small sports cars as a sports car ‘ revival ’ . |
| 3 | The blobs went from deep orange to bright yellow . |
| 4 | Twice in the six weeks before the referendum President Mikhail Gorbachev went on nationwide television and radio to appeal for a " yes " vote . |
| 5 | ‘ Marge ? ’ offered Ivy , in a frank , open tone , and tea went through such stages as could be managed in those days of austerity . |
| 6 | They always used mandolins , and ukuleles too , and the ukuleles went from little ones through to eight-string ones and baritone ukuleles like big mandocellos , all related . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The mulch went on this year in March ( together with the Growmore , as ever ) , and only the keenest weeds have managed to struggle through . |
| 9 | Soon after wooden aircraft went into large scale production it began to be realized that a proportion of aircraft plywood was ungluable . |
| 10 | Her brothers went through similar reactions with all the horrors of war to disturb their faith , and two did not stay in the Salvation Army . |
| 11 | Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot . |
| 12 | The industry went into rapid reverse . |
| 13 | The club went for another batsman instead , and that 's why I was intent on resigning . |
| 14 | Then followed the war years and members of the Brigade went on active service . |
| 15 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Charles , as Bartlemas and O'Rourke went into new paroxysms of laughter . |
| 17 | The new machine went into full production around mid-February , operated by a team of five casters . |
| 18 | The Mark III version of the Marsh machine went into commercial production and now no gentleman 's laboratory is complete without one . |
| 19 | Royal patronage put the seal of approval on the new form and the companies went to particular pains to arrange the Queen 's journeys . |
| 20 | Jason Soloman went past three players before shooting for goal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Five of the grandchildren went to Euro Disney on a school trip and loved it but did n't have time to really do it justice . |
| 23 | SWAPO loyalists were also concerned that top police and intelligence posts went to former security chiefs of the previous transitional government . |
| 24 | England defender Pallister was charged with keeping United alive , against a dour Moscow side , once the shoot-out went to sudden death . |
| 25 | England defender Pallister was charged with keeping United alive , against a dour Moscow side , once the shoot-out went to sudden death . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | This work went through three editions , each time augmented , the last being in the mid nineteenth century . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Over the next few years , Nicholson went from one teacher to another in his quest for knowledge of all acting techniques . |
| 30 | 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 . |