Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv prt] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 2 | ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret . |
| 3 | For all that , there was not much that went on in this household that Radulfus did not know . |
| 4 | ‘ At least the town escaped a 1970s style concrete flat roofed monstrosity of the type that went up in other town centres throughout the country , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Thanks to television … the nation had an armchair view of the violence : uprooted telegraph poles , rolling down the hill towards the police cordon ; a workmen 's hut dragged into the road and going up in petrol-fed flames ; a lone policeman with his truncheon repeatedly laying into a recumbent miner ; the wall of riot shields parting like the Red Sea as groups of police , in black one-piece suits and NATO helmets , dashed into the crowded pickets while a senior officer , with loud-hailer , encouraged them to ‘ take prisoners ’ . |
| 6 | The age groups start at 19–24 and go up in five-year bands to 80-plus . |
| 7 | They watched the three girls pair off with their brothers and go off in different directions . |
| 8 | And he got up , and at once took his stretcher and went out in full view of them all , so that they were astonished and praised God . |