Example sentences of "went [adv prt] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet whatever went on in that race , Kelly was certain that Short was a part of it . |
| 2 | The only other thing I have to put to you is this that I 've already put to er what we allege went on in that bedroom . |
| 3 | Whatever research still went on in that area remained the privilege of Tech-Green itself : unpublished and hidden . |
| 4 | A certain amount of research into the effects of ageing went on in that period ( and not only in Britain ) but much of it was forgotten when the crisis of ageing and labour shortage seemed less acute in the 1960s — the ‘ age of automation ’ ( Bagrit , 1965 ) , of greater availability of female and immigrant labour and of youth . |
| 5 | This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century . |
| 6 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 7 | When I think of what went on in eastern Europe , and in fascist Europe before the war , when I was younger , I am glad that we have a free press . |
| 8 | Unabashed , he went on in later years to inveigh against pornography and violence in the cinema . |
| 9 | They went on in this vein for several minutes while Ganem , occasionally shaking his head in disgust , tried to continue his conversation with Coleman . |
| 10 | For all that , there was not much that went on in this household that Radulfus did not know . |
| 11 | How should he get through his work if he went on in this way ? |
| 12 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 13 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 14 | We know very little of what went on in these places , from either archaeological or historical evidence , but R. H. Britnell has suggested that most markets were ‘ closely related to the growth of local trade between food producers , craftsmen and tradesmen ’ . |
| 15 | But that sort of thing went on in those days , money was physically handled all the time . |
| 16 | The village started half-alive about her , lights went on in some windows , then off again as the daylight strengthened . |
| 17 | And er happily we went along in that situation and I 've got to say this er I had shop stewards who even if they were new shop stewards coming into the committee , were n't long in developing the same train of thought as ourselves and , and you know we dealt with things in such a manner but er we were efficient just as efficient , you know , as our members were on the production line , and perhaps a little more efficient than the management in determining times . |
| 18 | They went down in one day , unloaded the two separate loads , got round to number seven Edgeware Road the next day . |
| 19 | South 's well-timed play had produced an overtrick on a hand on which a number of declarers actually went down in four spades , and , not surprisingly , the Israeli pair collected a complete ‘ top ’ . |
| 20 | Ireland 's Conor Henry , last year 's overall winner , went down in sixth place overall and looks likely to have to settle for a placing . |
| 21 | The figure shows that the rates of caesarean sections , epidural anaesthesia , and forceps and vacuum extractions went down in some maternity units but increased in most of them . |
| 22 | Griffiths went down in Welsh history as the first person to be sent off for kicking one of his own players . |
| 23 | We went through in two minutes what took other people an hour and a half . |
| 24 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 25 | The eight million square feet in the World Financial Centre went up in four years and defied all predictions . |
| 26 | ‘ At least the town escaped a 1970s style concrete flat roofed monstrosity of the type that went up in other town centres throughout the country , ’ she said . |
| 27 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 28 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |
| 29 | And that went until they went out in late April . |
| 30 | Defending champion Patrick Wallace came from behind to beat Mark Howe , but Kieran Erwin , twice holder of the title , went out in five frames to Harry Morgan . |