Example sentences of "[pers pn] went [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 2 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 3 | When I went there in 1987 , after my journey to Auschwitz , it seemed somehow facile , an instrument of propaganda that used the horror of what happened in Auschwitz and Treblinka and all the other camps to justify not just the existence of Israel but all that Israel has done since . |
| 4 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 5 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 6 | In January 1924 , when the house was nearing completion , she went twice in four days , first with her son ‘ Georgie ’ , the Duke of Kent , when they spent one and a half hours ‘ going over the beautiful miniature things ’ , as she records in her diary , and later with a friend when she ‘ arranged some of the rooms ’ . |
| 7 | We went through in two minutes what took other people an hour and a half . |
| 8 | And er happily we went along in that situation and I 've got to say this er I had shop stewards who even if they were new shop stewards coming into the committee , were n't long in developing the same train of thought as ourselves and , and you know we dealt with things in such a manner but er we were efficient just as efficient , you know , as our members were on the production line , and perhaps a little more efficient than the management in determining times . |
| 9 | What I said at the last committee was I merely advised the committee that if they went ahead in this current financial year that the grant would not be available . |
| 10 | They went on in this vein for several minutes while Ganem , occasionally shaking his head in disgust , tried to continue his conversation with Coleman . |
| 11 | And that went until they went out in late April . |
| 12 | It then erm , they would , they went out in one complete entity you see and the trolley wires were just taken down . |
| 13 | They went down in one day , unloaded the two separate loads , got round to number seven Edgeware Road the next day . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 15 | But she could not say a word as he went on in that same tone . |
| 16 | Unabashed , he went on in later years to inveigh against pornography and violence in the cinema . |
| 17 | Educated at Uppingham , where he gained a scholarship and won prizes for athletics and literature , he went on in 1870 to Balliol College , Oxford . |
| 18 | How should he get through his work if he went on in this way ? |
| 19 | Fabia felt then that if he went on in this ‘ lift her up , knock her down ’ fashion for very much longer , the way her heart was behaving , she would probably have heart failure . |
| 20 | A month before he went up in 1897 his father 's first cousin ( and namesake ) had been struck by the lad 's awkward manners , silent gaucherie , unsuitable dress , and down-covered chin ; three years later Edward returned the visit in a colours blazer , accompanied by his wife and his eight-months-old son . |
| 21 | A big move was also made by Fred Couples , America 's leading money-winner this season , when he went out in 32 and then made further birdies at the 10th and 13th . |
| 22 | Lawrie had 74 and McAllister a 75 in which he went out in 43 and returned in 32 . |
| 23 | ‘ So he went off in such a hurry or so worried that he forgot to cancel . |
| 24 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 25 | He went there in 1958 and his first posting was to a remote rural station in the north of the country . |
| 26 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |