Example sentences of "[adj] went [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A certain amount of research into the effects of ageing went on in that period ( and not only in Britain ) but much of it was forgotten when the crisis of ageing and labour shortage seemed less acute in the 1960s — the ‘ age of automation ’ ( Bagrit , 1965 ) , of greater availability of female and immigrant labour and of youth . |
| 2 | The kids at my new school all went round in little gangs , spoiling for a fight — nothing serious , just pushing other kids over and jeering at them . |
| 3 | Khrushchev decided he liked Eisenhower , ‘ a reasonable and modest man ’ , and the much discussed ‘ Spirit of Camp David ’ meant that a lot of smiling went on in public . |
| 4 | With a group of other Australians , I first went there in 1973 , to see Graeme Langland 's Kangaroos take on the Lions before a much smaller crowd than honoured Ellery 's boys last year . |
| 5 | ‘ I first went there in 1987 , travelling with Chris Butcher and Peter Williams to play for Transvaal B , ’ he explained . |