Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential quality of the world was its transitoriness vis-à-vis God , not the visible change which went on unceasingly in the world . ’ |
| 2 | Her courage in opposing Ted went down well in the Party and in much of the press . |
| 3 | The fighting was too close for firearms ; the two men went down together in the darkness and wrestled until another American could discern which was which and hit the redhead hard with the butt of his Colt . |
| 4 | But the chap in the office says a bomb went down there in the war and there was a landfall . |
| 5 | Man and boy went off together in the direction of the kitchen garden . |
| 6 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 7 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |