Example sentences of "[Wh det] go [adv prt] in the mind " in BNC.

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1 All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them .
2 The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user .
3 ‘ Please do n't ask me to explain what goes on in the mind of an Italian Water Board .
4 But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair .
5 But Cadfael was certain by then that Herluin did not know his Tutilo at all , probably never had any clear idea what went on in the minds of any of his novices , because he paid no regard to them .
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