Example sentences of "[Wh det] went [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
4 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
5 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
6 | 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 . |