Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman with long white hair wearing a loose , black dress went on plaiting bright strands of silk ; a young , dark man in a sleeveless jerkin continued to bend over the sketch book in which he was drawing . |
| 2 | A further £73,000 went on repairing other damage from fires , almost all of which were started deliberately . |
| 3 | Herbert told me that his government , saddened by so many post-war feature films in which heroic Allies and horrid Nazis went on refighting old battles ( to me no more than the modern equivalent of cowboys and Indians ) was much impressed by the non-partisan nature of my films and books , and intended to give public expression of their approval . |
| 4 | In 1989 some half of the £8.8 million thus raised went on training future clergy , the rest on a variety of projects including the running of General Synod itself . |
| 5 | He went on making different things — sets of harrows he used to re-lay . |
| 6 | You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often . |
| 7 | I was in a bad way at that time , I felt really depressed , so I went round causing criminal damage . |