Example sentences of "went [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , erm you know , having been brought up w in a you could almost say a quarrying atmosphere that 's the right er expression but erm I mean one knew what w went on in the quarry you know . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 3 | But yes , I mean there was b battering went on in the flats from time to time . |
| 4 | Harry , for his part , exchanged a knowing smile with Papaioannou , then went on in the direction of the village . |
| 5 | It 's the officers working now who are the only ones who can really tell you what went on in the past . |
| 6 | If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 7 | Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 8 | Well it was just a a guild for women who could take their knitting and have a cup of tea and discuss everything that went on in the Cooperative , you know . |
| 9 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 10 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 11 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that there is considerable maladministration among Labour councils , as witness the discovery of what went on in the council of Brent when it was under Labour control . |
| 13 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 14 | They were sitting at an outside table in one of the corner cafés of the Ataba el Khadra , out of reach of the traffic but strategically placed so that they could watch not only all the interesting things that went on in the square but also the more sophisticated exchanges which went on between tourist and native in Musky Street . |
| 15 | Still , it would be hard to deny that in , say , 1875 what went on in the university of Kazan and Kiev was more significant than what went on in Yale and Princeton . |
| 16 | When the Hon. Gentleman has seen all the details , he should compare them with what went on in the valleys when he was a Minister . |
| 17 | The soul-searching that went on in the security community , in the think tanks and universities throughout the United States in 1990 gives some hint of that ‘ sense of loss ’ . |
| 18 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 19 | Nothing that went on in the town was a secret for long . |
| 20 | They wo n't send over the 2,000 word revelation on what really went on in the referee 's room at Lord 's , when the Texaco Trophy ball was changed , until BT fix the fault . |
| 21 | These examples give only a hint of the technical finagling that went on in the research centres . |
| 22 | True Confessions in 1981 was an attempt at getting my stage nerve back after a disastrous premature version of Blood and Ice , my first try at a real play , went on in the studio of the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry ( ‘ I 'd rather be at the dentist — Birmingham Evening News ’ ) . |
| 23 | No , Maidstone had been right all along : Sandison knew nothing about what went on in the city . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One top player said : ‘ It 's just great the way the Mirror has stuck at prising out exactly what went on in the umpires ’ room when the ball was changed during the lunch interval . |
| 26 | He was not a fool ; he knew what went on in the fields about his home in summer ; he was not himself without desires , desires and curiosity . |
| 27 | So er er th th there were some er quite substantial er discussions and debates which er which er which went on in the family over the years of course . |
| 28 | ‘ They were concerned I would do something gruesome or speak critically about what went on in the ward . ’ |
| 29 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 30 | Being already in the City I was n't far from the divisional H.Q. , and I went along in the hope of finding Redpath there . |