Example sentences of "what went [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on .
2 The history of Lakeland climbing is therefore the history , according to the FRCC , of the guide editor 's climbing friends , and similarly in Wales , history is the CC perspective of what went on .
3 The Japanese are now the only ones who do n't know what went on . ’
4 ‘ I never knew what went on on the lorries , ’ he said .
5 He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon .
6 We will let you know in the September magazine just how good the Ventures were and what went on .
7 And who was to know what went on in anyone else 's family ?
8 ‘ But there 's nothing really wrong with what went on .
9 ‘ Now we are sure what went on .
10 I was amazed by what went on behind the scenes . ’
11 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 .
12 Not that he could always fathom what went on in Morton 's head .
13 Whatever it was , she could do nothing about it herself , since she had n't the remotest idea what went on under the bonnet of the Renault .
14 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 — ’
15 We both know what went on just now — do n't we ? ’
16 Actually , I am not sure that I was there on that night of his arrival , and I do n't claim to remember all the details or to have been as impressed by his appearance , framed in the doorway , as some people I drink with do ; I think they just want to talk about their witnessing his first appearance that way — as if he was an angel or something extraordinary — because of what went on to happen later .
17 I could n't tell then nor can I tell now exactly what went on in Alec Davidson 's mind .
18 No , Maidstone had been right all along : Sandison knew nothing about what went on in the city .
19 ‘ I do n't really know what went on from there .
20 It would not be proper or right for me to discuss what went on on the specific issues in the Cabinet and I do n't wish to do so .
21 Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side .
22 A physician , Naumann , was sent along with a farrier to see what went on at Alfort ; Sick , a surgeon , again with a farrier , was sent to Vienna , and an apothecary , Ratzburg , was sent to Leipzig to fit himself for teaching botany and chemistry .
23 What went on privately between Dista and CSM is irrelevant Dr Gennery now produces information that we tried to obtain , with no success , at the time .
24 One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma .
25 While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 .
26 They talked very little about what went on down there among the trees .
27 They would talk about the weather , about what went on by the sea-coast , about Easterling pirates , about news from Lincoln , or Peterborough , or York , or Chester , but not about the forest .
28 Every few yards was a different world around which a curtain of leaves was drawn , and what went on there was hidden from all else .
29 In the meantime because he lay so close to them Tom was able to hear and see most of what went on .
30 The Poles , through Commissioner General Marian Chodacki , said that what went on to their stamps was their business , and they were genuinely mystified that Danzigers whose ancestors had risen up against the Teutonic Knights should feel offended by stamps that celebrated their victory .
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