Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | For her thoughts just went round in agonising circles . |
2 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
3 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
4 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |
5 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
6 | The radio claimed losses by government forces in the north-west , and said that fighting was now going on in five areas , mainly in Amharic-speaking central , north and north-west Ethiopia , as well as in the south and in the Ogaden area of the south-east . |
7 | The animals are often very large , and they frequently go about in great herds . |
8 | He then goes on in separate chapters to cover sexism , racism , ageism and disablism . |
9 | A feature of the in-service programme at Codsall Comprehensive School , for instance , was a guided tour of the school , the Director of Resources showing teachers what was actually going on in other departments . |
10 | South 's well-timed play had produced an overtrick on a hand on which a number of declarers actually went down in four spades , and , not surprisingly , the Israeli pair collected a complete ‘ top ’ . |