Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not explain what he meant , but went on rather quickly to tell me about the appointment , and for a while we talked about Cambridge , and places and people that we both knew well . |
| 2 | She heard the impatience in his tone and went on even more firmly , ‘ It would simply be that it fits in with my long-term plan , which is to get a wide range of experience before going on an extended working holiday overseas . ’ |
| 3 | He paused , gave each of them a solemn look across his spectacles and then went on even more deliberately , in his dry old voice . |
| 4 | Fenella looked to where he indicated , to the farthest of the treadmills and saw the single creature held captive there , and her heart jumped and missed several beats , and then went on again erratically . |
| 5 | We both know what went on just now — do n't we ? ’ |
| 6 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 7 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 8 | If this went on much longer , the real Robert Wilson might emerge — that awful , jelly-like creature that he had been hiding from the world for the last twenty-four years . |
| 9 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 10 | However , things went on very well at after that . |
| 11 | ‘ But , ’ he went on very quietly , ‘ you can rock my boat any time you like . ’ |
| 12 | Emigration to the colony went on happily enough in the 1630s . |
| 13 | In the end the show went on far longer than we expected and was fairly raunchy . |
| 14 | Early in 1887 the Governors decided that the decline in numbers had gone far enough ( though in fact it went on still further ) . |
| 15 | It went on too long , until its recent shuddering halt . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the arrangement , however justified originally , went on too long . |
| 17 | The owners of Flokati were showing Mavis and Walter Bricknell-type behaviour , fluttering about in a nervous anxiety that would be bound to affect the horse if it went on too long . |
| 18 | It would hurt to do it , to be without him , but she would have to if this went on too long , or he would destroy her emotionally , because she would have nothing left when he did finally tire of her . |
| 19 | It 's our fault — we went on too long . ’ |
| 20 | In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership . |
| 21 | I figure he thought his men would get out of control if it went on any longer . |
| 22 | Pro-emancipationists indicated their reliance on popular opinion expressed in petitions from the country and went along only reluctantly , and sceptically , with the government 's hope for co-operative measures of amelioration by colonial assemblies . |
| 23 | Her anguish , Henry noted , went down rather well with Donald . |
| 24 | Plus he went skiing on his own at Christmas and he went down straight away . |
| 25 | All this went down well enough with the members of the Institute , although it conveniently ignored both the fact that large numbers of those he excoriated had been encouraged into the professions by business parents and that for an entire decade ‘ the Establishment ’ had been elbowed aside by the Thatcher appointments policy . |
| 26 | In the afternoon , Gould 's rebellion went down even faster than the Tory £ . |
| 27 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 28 | Let's do some of those numbers that went down so well in Sun City ! |
| 29 | ‘ Those biscuits of yours that went down so very well at the last Parents ’ Evening . |
| 30 | At a graduation ceremony from the school , on Tuesday , May 31 , 1949 , Leonard was chosen to offer , in Hebrew , the opening prayer ( the fate of his being a Cohen ! ) and take part in a short presentation entitled , ‘ What Is Torah ? ’ which went down extremely well . |