Example sentences of "went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Following her success , went on to represent Suffolk in the National Finals at Skegness , narrowly losing in the semi-finals , by one shot . |
| 32 | His son Benjamin Lee ( 1798–1868 ) whose interest in politics and public life was rewarded when he became Lord Mayor of Dublin , later went on to represent the city as a Member of Parliament . |
| 33 | Winners from last year 's northern finals went on to represent Britain in the first world championships in London . |
| 34 | District competitions were held over a period of six months and finalists and runners-up from these matches went on to represent their district at the area competition . |
| 35 | For example , in Namibia , UNTAG not only had to ensure that the ceasefire was observed ; it also went on to tackle a programme of repatriation , and oversee the first elections for the new state . |
| 36 | NCM NV went on to bid for and was successful part of ECGD . |
| 37 | As Charlwood Lawton put it in 1693 , there were Jacobites for reformations , " That think it Lawful for Kings , and their Parliaments , to limit and explain the Nature of Prerogatives " , and he went on to advocate certain legal reforms , reform of the militia , the frequent sitting of Parliament ( Lawton was writing before the passage of the 1694 Triennial Act ) , and Parliament 's right to scrutinise and punish ministers of state . |
| 38 | ‘ The response was so amazing , ’ Chris recalls , ‘ that we went on to exhibit in London and the business really took off . ’ |
| 39 | Mr Patten went on to draw the obvious conclusion . |
| 40 | ( It is somewhat remarkable to note that after such stirring events , the committee went on to draw the master 's attention to the fact that a horse had been observed grazing in the paddock , which had been let for sheep only . |
| 41 | He was glad to hear that their priests were telling the people that the potato murrain was a visitation of the Almighty ; he only hoped they went on to draw the full lesson . |
| 42 | Then he went on to complain that even business was bad , as he had sold only two small paintings . |
| 43 | But another , in the Sunday Times , announces a page-long article under the banner ‘ The cure that failed ’ , goes on to boast of ‘ How we broke the story ’ ( in 1989 ) that treating AIDS patients with AZT might not be valid and then went on to complain that ‘ doctors , en masse , have taken up [ AIDS ] as a crusade , at the expense of science ’ . |
| 44 | Andreeva went on to complain of historical plays , such as those of Mikhail Shatrov , which were arbitrary in their interpretation and close to the views that had been put forward by Lenin 's opponents , and she deplored the obsessive interest in Stalin among many writers , obscuring the fact that his was a complex and transitional period in which industrialisation , collectivisation and a cultural revolution had brought the USSR into the ranks of the great powers . |
| 45 | Andrews went on to complain that the TNP 's association with the NDC had brought no benefits apart from a Cabinet post ( the Ministry of Agriculture ) for Ben Jones . |
| 46 | Peter Ueberroth , son of a travelling aluminium salesman , worked his way through college , single-handedly built a $300 million business , went on to organize the 1984 Olympics , became Time magazine 's Man of the Year and the commissioner of baseball . |
| 47 | David Lockspieser went on to design and fly the LDA-01 canard freighter G-AVOR in the late 1960s . |
| 48 | Mr. Wing was a prominent local architect and he went on to design and build the House of Industry . |
| 49 | Like the young men in Paris , he also designed for the opera and ballet , and then went on to design the famous stained glass windows of the new Coventry Cathedral . |
| 50 | She went on to design over 300 gardens , some in continental Europe and America , often to accompany house plans sent by Lutyens . |
| 51 | For Wykeham he designed New College , Oxford , and supervised the works there from 1379 to 1386 , after which he went on to design Winchester College , ready for occupation in 1394 but not completed until after 1400 . |
| 52 | Hamish , and others , went on to design equally strong , but lighter , axes . |
| 53 | The study went on to evaluate , on the basis of the conclusions reached on the impact of the Energy Act , the costs and benefits of more fundamental re-structuring of the public sector electricity supply industry . |
| 54 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 55 | He had cut his teeth on Shakespeare with Ben Greet in 1931 and went on to enlarge his Shakespearian repertoire throughout the rest of his life . |
| 56 | The retiring Chairman , June Bascombe , then went on to enlarge on these past events and issues an the Hon. Treasurer , Joan Daniels , presented her report with great lucidity . |
| 57 | The court went on to cite a series of authorities for supporting a general jurisdiction to prevent a misuse of the process of the court . |
| 58 | While this language might not have been chosen under Kennedy , the advisers of the new president , Lyndon Johnson , went on to cite specific grievances against Britain which would have arisen under any president . |
| 59 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 60 | One daughter-in-law who rated the home as excellent went on to explain that her mother-in-law : |