Example sentences of "went [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems , ’ he went on in a calmer voice , ‘ that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone . |
| 4 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 5 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 6 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 8 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 10 | Miraculously , her voice went on in a steady stream , without a quiver , while her mind tried to take in what had happened . |
| 11 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 12 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 14 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 15 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 16 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Who knew what strange rites went on in the savage mountains beyond Tirana , what musical instruments they played , where mad King Zog had ruled . |
| 24 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 27 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I then went on in the proper sequence to the pitch control : " And this reduces the pitch . " |
| 30 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |