Example sentences of "went [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
| 2 | Miraculously , her voice went on in a steady stream , without a quiver , while her mind tried to take in what had happened . |
| 3 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 6 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
| 7 | This was not wildly different , I suppose , to what went on in a book I was reading , Edmund Gosse 's Father and Son , in which the father would pray before any crucial decision and await God 's direction . |
| 8 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 9 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems , ’ he went on in a calmer voice , ‘ that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll have other interests now , though , ’ he went on in a friendly , easy manner . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 13 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 14 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 15 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 16 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 17 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 18 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |
| 19 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone . |
| 21 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 22 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 23 | The same process went on in every town and city ; the opening of a prestigious down-town house symbolized a social acceptance of movies amidst the fashionable down-town set but also created new standards and expectations which permeated downwards to other venues and these gradually made it easier for a number of managers to pull in women , children , families , and the respectable classes . |
| 24 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 25 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 26 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 27 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 28 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 29 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 30 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |