Example sentences of "went [adv] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felix 's wife went on stoutly reading her poetry as if she were not shy , roaring to keep the beat against the Vietnamese and walking round and round the dining table in time with herself . |
| 2 | Here not only do the sediments preserve a continuous and more or less uniform record over the disputed boundary , but the faunas ( most notably the monograptids ) went on happily evolving , oblivious of the great things that were going on elsewhere . |
| 3 | Well , you learned to hold your own in those days , but some , some of them were n't too particular about bathing and what washing you know things like that , but er you got the usual crop of pigeon flies but there was no hooliganism , occasionally when , when it was election time and when Sir Richard was candidate for one year I remember , they came round and the people from Street and round that road they paraded through Caldmore and Palfry and there was a little bit of rough stuff went on there heckling and booing and shouting , but I do n't think any harm done . |
| 4 | Tom nodded agreement , and went on rapidly assembling his camera . |
| 5 | She went on industriously compressing and releasing , but now she felt the breath of life responding to her touch , following the pressure of her hands in and out , lifting the body under her , until she was only orchestrating the performance , and signalling its progression by the measured touch of her palms and undulation of her body . |
| 6 | The clientele , however , used to the drama of Arab conversation , went on placidly reading their newspapers . |
| 7 | The uhum , C & A 's has a lot of them , went down there looking for some shoes for Amy . |
| 8 | He had a period that he went through just reading books on America . |
| 9 | It seems that even the 081/071 switch-over went seamlessly well owing to Richard and his expert ease as writer/director . |
| 10 | Hannaford went off not knowing what day it was and is still in hospital receiving treatement for a fractured cheekbone . |
| 11 | Hereford are still searching for the winning touch … goal man Chris Pike was out of luck on saturday … out of sorts too he went off still feeling the affects of flu … |
| 12 | In came and went , because it 's got , which went out ever going and coming again , the ever , aspect has gone , so how could you get that . |
| 13 | The little man roared with laughter and it evidently pleased him for he went about afterwards telling the Cabinet that ’ he had been caught telling the truth ’ . ’ |
| 14 | While he and Charlotte went steadily ahead making their preparations , Ruth rushed at hers as if the summons to depart might arrive the very next day . |
| 15 | They were just , it was just a one day I went round there shopping and they had , and I bought some beige ones for the kitchen . |
| 16 | Jackie went round solemnly collecting the cash on his porridge plate . |