Example sentences of "[adv] went [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social commentators noted that this phenomenon was not new : bright colours and rising skirts apparently went with good times whilst body concealment and drab tones accompanied depression . |
| 2 | We only went for two days . |
| 3 | Mattlock 's business judgement was vindicated by Cotton Town 's sales : it only went into one printing . |
| 4 | erm there is criticism that erm we only went into this war because of oil interests . |
| 5 | A lot of chemical reactions are actually reversible , but the tend to be mainly going very much in one direction , so we just say we just write it as though it only went in one direction . |
| 6 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 7 | Although preliminary speculation was that the crash might have been caused by a bomb , accident investigators revealed that the plane had nose-dived after the right engine suddenly went into reverse thrust ; electronic safety systems designed to cope with this had apparently failed , and a warning light had either malfunctioned or had not been believed by the pilot . |
| 8 | Recently , for instance , the GHI Taste Panel tucked in to ready-made Christmas cakes ( see page 107 ) , while two more GHI researchers literally went into cold storage ( -18°C ) to test out the thermal properties of the vests featured on page 105 . |
| 9 | Those whose husbands were away went in constant dread of advances made to them by Allied soldiers in the area . |
| 10 | Mr Wheeler said police already went to public lavatories to detect sex offenders . |
| 11 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 12 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 13 | No , no just went in ordinary civilian wear , girls sometimes had some overalls because they were handling the ticket boxes , they were metal , they got wet , they rusted up and that was a filthy job for there was really , in those days it was a two box system , a man drew his box which contained a certain amount of tickets of different variable classes and erm , it was listed on a waybill , he was given a half an hour to check his box and join his bus at town centre . |
| 14 | Then it gradually went from five pounds to ten . |
| 15 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 16 | He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick . |
| 17 | A senior partner of the defendants endorsed the articled clerk 's advice : the wife later went to other solicitors , and proceedings were issued claiming damages for negligence against the defendants in handling the financial provision side of her divorce . |
| 18 | He later went on national television to state that he would stand down unless his new government gained public backing . |
| 19 | I would n't buy anything unless it had the British Standard kitemark on it to show it was safety approved , and I also went for reputable makes , taking cost into consideration , too , of course . |
| 20 | Second and third places also went to American oilmen , H. L. Hunt and S. Richardson . |
| 21 | He opened his mouth to make an acid retort , and then remembered that the sura which permitted captives to be enslaved also went to considerable lengths to provide laws for their welfare . |
| 22 | As time went on , they also went to British Guiana , the Hawaiian Islands , North America and Curação . |
| 23 | My mind was a blank ; I automatically went through some drills and some stretching . |
| 24 | Oh it was a hard working night for all the women and the dances went on t four o'clock in the morning and a wedding nearly went on all night . |
| 25 | Sister was off duty , and Staff Nurse Target and Frankie Elmore both went to first supper , leaving Juliet in charge . |
| 26 | MY grandson and my brother both went to public schools . |
| 27 | So you never really went to any fortune teller ? |
| 28 | Laura often went for long walks on her own into the hills behind Carno railway station . |
| 29 | In answer to the first question there is some evidence that initially there is a degree of opposition — staff see themselves losing the opportunity of sixth form teaching , parents , who often went to 11–18 schools themselves , regard them as a second best alternative . |
| 30 | Nothing enraged the men submitted to the inferno of Verdun more than nauseous effusions like these , and their officers often went to extraordinary lengths to obtain copies of Le Journal de Genève , for a reasonably accurate rapportage of the war . |