Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv prt] in [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 So much for the handwringing about the decline of the political process that goes on in Washington .
2 Yet the British Government was responsible under Clause 75 of the Government of Ireland Act for everything that goes on in Northern Ireland .
3 Ordyn-Nashchokin , one of the more forward-looking Russian statesmen of the seventeenth century , objected in the 1660s to any permanent foreign diplomatic representation in the country because it would " bring harm to the Muscovite state and embroil it with other nations " and because foreign diplomats would " find out everything that went on in Moscow and tell it abroad " .
4 THE memories of the love and caring that went on in Lourdes is something I shall always treasure .
5 We do n't of course see the kind of thing that went on in Germany under Hitler , but you feel a disaster is waiting , another disaster of some kind is waiting .
6 Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government .
7 ( The argument that went on in Tanzania at this time is referred to in some detail in the next chapter . )
8 She dimly perceived the terrible conflict that went on in Johnny 's mind between the dark side of his nature and the knowledge of how he should behave — of the actions expected of him because , as he would have put it , he was a Gentleman .
9 I told him that we were leaving the present trail at Reggane and going through In Salah and Tamanrasset .
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