Example sentences of "went [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowling resembles a number of older artists in the exhibition in that he came to England ( from Guyana , in his case ) to be an artist , had some success , then moved to and fro between London and New York when his public career went downhill in the Sixties . |
| 2 | But the family went downhill in the thirties — lost their money gambling and giving grand parties and travelling abroad , Hepzibah says — and in the end they had to sell most of their land , and the mine . |
| 3 | ‘ No , that is wrong , ’ Sven Hjerson went on in his level , accented tones . |
| 4 | Then I went on in Arabic : ‘ You 'll be sorry . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His instinctive methods , and his belief that the spontaneity of a performance , whatever went on in rehearsals , is of prime importance , keeps players on their toes . |
| 7 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
| 8 | The issue of woman as victim as opposed to woman as survivor was tackled head on by Polish director Zofia Kalinska whose work showing women as bearers of demonic energy culminated in the formation of the Magic Circle , which went on in 1988 to tour a collectively devised piece called Nominate Filiae . |
| 9 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 10 | Miraculously , her voice went on in a steady stream , without a quiver , while her mind tried to take in what had happened . |
| 11 | And who was to know what went on in anyone else 's family ? |
| 12 | Khrushchev decided he liked Eisenhower , ‘ a reasonable and modest man ’ , and the much discussed ‘ Spirit of Camp David ’ meant that a lot of smiling went on in public . |
| 13 | Whatever research still went on in that area remained the privilege of Tech-Green itself : unpublished and hidden . |
| 14 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 15 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 16 | More than 75 per cent of primary parents were happy with their level of involvement with 20 per cent wanting more to say in what went on in schools . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 18 | Not that he could always fathom what went on in Morton 's head . |
| 19 | I very rarely feel any curiosity about Christabel 's life — it 's funny I even feel a sort of squeamishness about things she might have touched , or places she might have been — it 's the language that matters , is n't it , it 's what went on in her mind — ’ |
| 20 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
| 21 | I could n't tell then nor can I tell now exactly what went on in Alec Davidson 's mind . |
| 22 | No , Maidstone had been right all along : Sandison knew nothing about what went on in the city . |
| 23 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 24 | After the third knocking a light went on in Jessie 's room ; then there was the sound of muffled voices . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 27 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 28 | True Confessions in 1981 was an attempt at getting my stage nerve back after a disastrous premature version of Blood and Ice , my first try at a real play , went on in the studio of the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry ( ‘ I 'd rather be at the dentist — Birmingham Evening News ’ ) . |
| 29 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
| 30 | These examples give only a hint of the technical finagling that went on in the research centres . |