Example sentences of "go [adv prt] in an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 2 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 4 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 5 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 6 | they lost by six at Crewe … won by five against Colchester … and then went down in an eight goal bonanza last week … |
| 7 | MORE HONEST than the above but just as romantic , albeit after Hemingway rather than Erich Segal , this finds Peckinpah surveying the carnage of the Mexican Revolution and has his heroes — William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Warren Oates , Ben Johnson — go out in an authentic apotheosis , a slow-motion orgy of mass-destruction even more trippily appealing than the wryness of Butch and Sundance . |
| 8 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |