Example sentences of "[Wh det] go [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts . |
| 2 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
| 3 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 4 | ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting . |
| 5 | I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom . |
| 6 | Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all . |
| 7 | Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind . |
| 8 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 9 | The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 10 | In the end this is a debate not about bolting versus traditional climbing , it 's a debate about morality — about what goes on inside a climber 's head when he look s at his ( or her ) environment . |
| 11 | Or , though the process or institution may be , so to speak , on the doorstep , its accessibility may be limited : what goes on inside a defence research establishment or a Masonic Lodge are obvious examples . |
| 12 | Some learn in this way for the first time about what goes on inside a university . |
| 13 | THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head . |
| 14 | I 've always thought babies have a pretty rotten life , completely under the control of people who do n't have any idea of what goes on inside a baby 's mind — ’ |
| 15 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
| 16 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
| 17 | This was not wildly different , I suppose , to what went on in a book I was reading , Edmund Gosse 's Father and Son , in which the father would pray before any crucial decision and await God 's direction . |