Example sentences of "went [adv] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was happy to be near a door into the street , where she could see passers-by and know that other lives went on in their placid courses . |
| 2 | Sloman prompts one to ask what it could be like to be an entity that controlled all existing ( presumably conscious ) human beings but had no access to what went on in their conscious minds at all , and of which , ex hypothesi , the humans themselves were not aware ? |
| 3 | When my husband 's mother , Lakey , died , an extraordinary scene of pillage went on in her little Blackpool bungalow after Jack had uttered the fateful sentence to visiting friends and relatives ‘ Take whatever you want . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Hawkins , ’ he went on in his usual voice , ‘ will you promise not to escape ? ’ |
| 5 | Edmunds went on in his lecture-room style as though Fox had not interrupted : ‘ Either form of the poison could have been administered in brandy but brandy would not by any means completely mask the bitter taste . ’ |
| 6 | Whether the Company did help is not known , and for over thirty years Hoyle went on in his own way . |
| 7 | Simultaneously , Than Tun — touring central Burma — went underground in his native Toungoo . |
| 8 | Worker participation was a notable achievement , but the Chilean proletariat went further in their radical actions , by setting up the cordones . |
| 9 | The man went off in his brown dressing-gown . |
| 10 | Each time she went out in her distinctive red Metro she was followed by a press posse . |
| 11 | Two countries , until the will of the people decided we 'd had enough and they went out in their hundreds of thousands and pulled the Wall down . |
| 12 | This year he went out in his first heat at the Hard Rock . |