Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akram went on to perform in plays in English and Bengali . |
| 2 | Technical border teams went on to meet in Vientiane in September , Beijing in November , Yunnan province ( China ) in January-February 1991 and Vientiane in August . |
| 3 | Well , I remember Strawberry Alarm Clock , a bunch of psychedelic nutters from Santa Barbara , who had a massive hit with ‘ Incense and Peppermint ’ in 1967 and then went on to appear in the Psych-Out movie . |
| 4 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 5 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 6 | A considerable number of Remploy workers do move on to work in open conditions but many remain semi-permanently in the sheltered environment . |
| 7 | He went on to work in a hospital ship in the Mediterranean — a year which he later described as being one of the most enjoyable of his life . |
| 8 | He went on to work in thermodynamics , and like Wheatstone to put his electrical knowledge to practical use in devices connected with telegraphy . |
| 9 | Individuals have gone on to work in support of bands such as Bon Jovi , to take part in national competitions , to form club acts and to undertake the musician 's bread and butter work playing in theatre bands . |
| 10 | Next month he travels to Nuremburg to do parish work before going on to work in the archives in the Papal capital . |
| 11 | Very often pupils will benefit from the opportunity to see and handle , and discuss a few selected artefacts at close hand , before going on to work in the display galleries . |
| 12 | They still wore the clothes they had fought in , with no decorations or marks of triumph , and filed past in dead silence , the Ras 's son coming in to sit in his stained clothes among all the gloriously dressed chiefs , a very silent but dignified figure . |
| 13 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 14 | Throughout the day , a steady stream of East Germans came along to sit in it , admire it , wonder at it , touch it — the latest Trabant 601 de-luxe , that is . |
| 15 | There used to be a Circuit bicycle , kept in Thomas Street , for the use of visiting Edgehill students down to preach in the country churches . |
| 16 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 17 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 18 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 19 | The skep , with some comb still hanging to feed the bees through the cold times , was lifted onto a cloth , the spare bees scooped back into it , and it was wrapped to be carried back down to overwinter in the bee field . |
| 20 | ‘ Let me invite you to dinner in an hour , ’ said George , ‘ and ’ — this was addressed to Mrs Robinson , who had crept in to stand in the doorway and hear the end of the story , and now stepped forward to play a part — ‘ please , let us borrow your daughter for the evening so that we four can be a company . |
| 21 | John Müeller had come to London from Nürnberg , had changed his name to Miller and settled down to work in close collaboration with Philip Miller at Chelsea . |
| 22 | It was too close to Christmas to bother about embarking on any sort of adult education before it , so I pacified Toby by saying I 'd got plenty of time and would look into it after the New Year , and we settled down to wallow in being together and getting into the Christmas spirit . |
| 23 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 24 | When he told her about the children at Dovercourt she and a friend went along to help in teaching English . |
| 25 | After the usual spate of clocks , lamps , bowls and ‘ anything round ’ during my learning period , I settled down to specialise in bowls . |
| 26 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 27 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 28 | Nick stayed at Muirfield for a morning press conference next day and then flew down to play in a charity pro-am . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , let our Jimmy down to pee in the sink then . ' |
| 30 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |