Example sentences of "went [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I then went on in the proper sequence to the pitch control : " And this reduces the pitch . " |
| 7 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
| 8 | The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A nationwide alert went out in the Irish Republic last night for Patrick Sheehy , one of Scotland Yard 's most wanted terrorist suspects . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |