Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the busy life which goes on in the unconscious profoundly affects our feelings and reactions in our conscious , outer life . |
| 2 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 4 | Hailed as the next Sophia Loren , the dark-eyed Italian is set to take the fashion world by storm as she steps out in the latest clothes by rainwear company Four Seasons . |
| 5 | That done he lets her go , and with his head over his shoulder turned , he goes out backwards without taking his yes off her … she runs off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Sound quality suffers without a sound card , but it turns up in the unlikeliest places . |
| 7 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 8 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 9 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 10 | ‘ We now have this ludicrous situation where if a fire broke out in one end of a particular street in Prestatyn , Rhyl fire engines will go to it and if it breaks out in the other end of the street Prestatyn will go to it , ’ added Coun Edwards . |
| 11 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 12 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 13 | The living theatre takes up , it comes up in the living theatre . |
| 14 | They 've brought it forward a little , so that it comes out in the last week of April — after the newspaper pieces . |
| 15 | Having said this though , it is what goes on in the woman-only space , which defines it as graduated separatism or not . |
| 16 | Erm the two interact constantly and you can see foreign policy in some ways as a bridge between what goes on within the frame , the domestic framework of a country and what goes on in the international environment which surrounds it . |
| 17 | We therefore found it necessary to look again at the empirical evidence about what goes on in the nuclear family — Who has the power ? |
| 18 | They are just as important though as what goes on in the main body of the conference centre . |