Example sentences of "went [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever research still went on in that area remained the privilege of Tech-Green itself : unpublished and hidden . |
| 2 | Yet whatever went on in that race , Kelly was certain that Short was a part of it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But she could not say a word as he went on in that same tone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unabashed , he went on in later years to inveigh against pornography and violence in the cinema . |
| 11 | It was n't quite the kind of flying that went on in 1940 . |
| 12 | For all that , there was not much that went on in this household that Radulfus did not know . |
| 13 | They went on in this vein for several minutes while Ganem , occasionally shaking his head in disgust , tried to continue his conversation with Coleman . |
| 14 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 15 | How should he get through his work if he went on in this way ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Fabia felt then that if he went on in this ‘ lift her up , knock her down ’ fashion for very much longer , the way her heart was behaving , she would probably have heart failure . |
| 18 | Khrushchev decided he liked Eisenhower , ‘ a reasonable and modest man ’ , and the much discussed ‘ Spirit of Camp David ’ meant that a lot of smiling went on in public . |
| 19 | Nothing went on here , though , in this shacky walk-up : what went on went on in interchangeable intercontinental hotel rooms , in the private suites of corrupt clubs and thriving speakeasies , in glazed Arab flats . |
| 20 | The issue of woman as victim as opposed to woman as survivor was tackled head on by Polish director Zofia Kalinska whose work showing women as bearers of demonic energy culminated in the formation of the Magic Circle , which went on in 1988 to tour a collectively devised piece called Nominate Filiae . |
| 21 | Educated at Uppingham , where he gained a scholarship and won prizes for athletics and literature , he went on in 1870 to Balliol College , Oxford . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | But that sort of thing went on in those days , money was physically handled all the time . |
| 24 | The village started half-alive about her , lights went on in some windows , then off again as the daylight strengthened . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They went down in one day , unloaded the two separate loads , got round to number seven Edgeware Road the next day . |
| 27 | ‘ They have raised over £1 million for the redevelopment — they deserve to reap the reward , ’ says the man who was captain when Charlton went down in 1956 to begin their troubles . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | She has devoted her time to the survey of the wreck of an East Indiaman lying off Weymouth ; once captained by William Wordsworth 's brother , the ship went down in 1805 . |
| 30 | 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 . |