Example sentences of "went [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
| 2 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
| 3 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
| 4 | This was not wildly different , I suppose , to what went on in a book I was reading , Edmund Gosse 's Father and Son , in which the father would pray before any crucial decision and await God 's direction . |
| 5 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 6 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 7 | An RAF Hercules transport plane is trying to rescue thirty Russian sailors whose ship went down in a gale in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 8 | He collided with the Guardsmen , and they went down in a tangle . |
| 9 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 10 | The other girls went together in a group but I was on my own , and I suppose someone could have followed me from the dance … |
| 11 | two went further in an effort to oppress his rage against his father , and to avoid a highly threatening career situation . |
| 12 | Went home in a taxi . ’ |
| 13 | In 1984 , Ceauşescu almost went home in a huff from Greece when even Andreas Papandreou 's government balked at awarding the highest honours twice over . |
| 14 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 15 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 16 | So I let him , Mama , right there on the sofa , and it was n't a bit nice , and in the end Charlie went off in a huff … |
| 17 | Owen went off in a huff and read the papers . |
| 18 | And then and then like you know and then she went off in a mood cos I cos I go to let's me sit opposite you like hinting like oh I do n't want to sit there . |
| 19 | ‘ We received warnings that mentioned four specific streets and the second bomb went off in a street which was not named in those warnings , ’ he said . |
| 20 | We used this door when a ghost came on or went off in a cloud of smoke . |
| 21 | I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust . |
| 22 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 23 | that 's just they 're the people I 'm going to interview okay then you 've got example yesterday at approximately nine twenty Bacon 's technical college at went up in a barrage of smoke taking one life which is believed to be that of the caretaker who was having a last minute check before leaving the building in the evening . |
| 24 | They went up in a paternoster lift which cranked regularly past its otherwise vacant portals . |
| 25 | The bucket went up in a geyser of flame , yellow and blue and white . |
| 26 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 27 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |
| 28 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 29 | On the last day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , Bruce Carver and Maya went up in a helicopter to take some aerial shots . |
| 30 | The place went up in a matter of minutes . |