Example sentences of "went [adv] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 2 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
| 3 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |
| 4 | Who knew what strange rites went on in the savage mountains beyond Tirana , what musical instruments they played , where mad King Zog had ruled . |
| 5 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 6 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 7 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 8 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I then went on in the proper sequence to the pitch control : " And this reduces the pitch . " |
| 11 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
| 12 | Captions on the screen can give brief information about what went on in the missing bits and how much time has elapsed . |
| 13 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 14 | Mains went along in the provincial games , playing steadily , scoring points ( he became top for the tour with 132 , 53 ahead of Bryan Williams and 77 clear of the third , Sid Going ) . |
| 15 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 16 | Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |
| 18 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 19 | The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall . |
| 20 | Three quiet days went past in the slow slap and plop of the river . |
| 21 | He had formed what later became the Prince 's Trust while he was in the Navy , and the grants that went out in the early years were paid for , anonymously , out of his naval allowance . |
| 22 | It was possible to get good , though restricted , shooting within an hour 's ride from Cairo and sometimes Garvin went out in the early morning before coming to the office . |
| 23 | Skipping an Ipswich rink , Roy Cutts , who had achieved a rare distinction of qualifying for all four championships — singles , pairs , triples and fours — went out in the first round of the fours to Egham of Surrey . |
| 24 | We went out in the first round and Lee did n't ask me anything until he 'd hit his drive . |
| 25 | A nationwide alert went out in the Irish Republic last night for Patrick Sheehy , one of Scotland Yard 's most wanted terrorist suspects . |
| 26 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 27 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 28 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 29 | Many Germans seem to have convinced themselves that by ‘ taking Gorbachev at his word ’ ( to borrow a phrase of the currently almost speechless Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the foreign minister ) , they could ensure that things went well in the Soviet Union ; and that Saddam Hussein could be shifted without war . |
| 30 | A total of 1,767 businesses went under in the first quarter of this year , as against 2,074 a year earlier . |