Example sentences of "[was/were] go [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself .
2 The preparations for The Human Angle , Dyson discovered , were going forward in a room on the first floor furnished with a sea-blue fitted carpet , a number of discreetly abstract paintings , and a walnut sideboard .
3 Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block .
4 And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad .
5 Oh Christ , there he was going round in a circle again .
6 She was gone again in a flash , leaving me faintly confused and in doubt about my capacity to judge people .
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