Example sentences of "[Wh det] went [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |
| 2 | The Strangeways riot , which went on for days longer than necessary because of squabbling between the Home Office prison department and the prison governor . |
| 3 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 4 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 5 | With an astringent readability and clarity rare among economists , Galbraith 's book had a tremendous reception , partly , he believes , because of the Soviet Sputnik which went up into space just before it was published . |
| 6 | Wihtred was heir to a legislative tradition in Kent which went back to Aethelberht but no king among the western Saxons is known to have legislated before Ine . |
| 7 | In fact , Marx and Engels did not have much choice among anthropologists because most of them were heirs to the philosophical tradition which went back to Locke and which glorified private property . |
| 8 | In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold , and in 1988 homely spades , belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible , a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank . |
| 9 | Two thousand mourners have attended the funeral of two young sisters from Middlesbrough who were knocked down by a car which went out of control . |
| 10 | Thieves have stolen toys from the graves of four young people killed by a car which went out of control and crashed into them . |
| 11 | The fragmentation of tasks which went along with Fordism reached technical , social and political limits . |
| 12 | You will notice that this inference contains the built-in assumption that whatever went on on Earth is likely to have gone on elsewhere in the universe , and this begs the whole question . |
| 13 | His instinctive methods , and his belief that the spontaneity of a performance , whatever went on in rehearsals , is of prime importance , keeps players on their toes . |
| 14 | Having seen some of what went on with secondary picketing in the 1970s , I regard it as the unacceptable face of socialism . |
| 15 | What went on on Saturday nights is less definitively documented ! |
| 16 | God knows what went on at night . |
| 17 | A physician , Naumann , was sent along with a farrier to see what went on at Alfort ; Sick , a surgeon , again with a farrier , was sent to Vienna , and an apothecary , Ratzburg , was sent to Leipzig to fit himself for teaching botany and chemistry . |
| 18 | What went on at Dracon ? ’ |
| 19 | WHAT went on at Westminster on Wednesday was a scandal . |
| 20 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 21 | Although he had a reasonably good idea of what went on between men and women , so far he had never even kissed a girl . |
| 22 | Not that he could always fathom what went on in Morton 's head . |
| 23 | This thinking has apparently not been overly concerned with the argument that from that point on it would be not so much what went on in Britain as what happened in Germany which would count most ( a phenomenon clearly illustrated by the chart in Appendix 2 ) . |
| 24 | I could n't tell then nor can I tell now exactly what went on in Alec Davidson 's mind . |
| 25 | Still , it would be hard to deny that in , say , 1875 what went on in the university of Kazan and Kiev was more significant than what went on in Yale and Princeton . |
| 26 | More than 75 per cent of primary parents were happy with their level of involvement with 20 per cent wanting more to say in what went on in schools . |
| 27 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |