Example sentences of "went [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 2 | ‘ Having said of the poet in The Use of Poetry that ‘ I do not mean that he should meddle with the tasks of the theologian , the preacher , the economist , the sociologist or anybody else ’ , that was just what Eliot went on to do . |
| 3 | Final touches for a midnight special performance by make-up lady Barbara Daley — the lady who later went on to do the make-up for Lady Diana on her wedding day . |
| 4 | You went on to do sterling work in the diarrhoea , headaches and vomiting department and you ended up coughing out your last in a way that Henry thought would be entirely suitable for Elinor . |
| 5 | He went on to do much more , but that is another story . |
| 6 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 7 | I want to bring in influences that are totally off the cuff in the same way that Isaac Hayes and Sly And The Family Stone went on to do . ’ |
| 8 | Fourteen per cent went on to do some study in Further Education and 25 per cent joined YOP ( Youth Opportunities Programme ) or YTS ( Youth Training Scheme ) schemes . |
| 9 | As one of the last prime ministers of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev , Mr Ryzhkov went on to do even worse damage to the Russian economy . |
| 10 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 11 | He wants us to publish his name and address asking Rita , who graduated in Biology around 1976 and then went on to do a teacher 's training course , to contact him please . |
| 12 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 13 | Gordon Selfridge , who went on to do rather well himself in the department-store business , started as one of Marshall 's clerks . |
| 14 | The pair went on to do similar work in Buckinghamshire in 1766 to 1768 and Yorkshire from 1767 to 1770 . |
| 15 | He took a third class in part i ( 1930 ) and a first class in physiology in part ii of the natural sciences tripos ( 1931 ) , and went on to do postgraduate research on nerve physiology and conditioned reflexes . |
| 16 | After leaving Bristol he went on to do postgraduate work at Reading University and is now organist of Dunstable Priory . |
| 17 | These workers clearly demonstrate the ability to detect signals in patients with substantial antibody concentrations , but do not state whether in these cases there was a rising titre of anti-D ; this , however , can be construed because they went on to do cordocentesis in the patients with high values . |
| 18 | He still went on to do an enormous lob over Coton 's head , and what seemed like half an hour later the ball sneaked itself over the line . |
| 19 | I would get a lot of satisfaction if the players went on to do well . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , the will be floating in the river when we went down to do the foundations , so it , it has cost a lot more money in , than we anticipated , and certainly in time and effort . |
| 21 | When they went down to do the chassis |
| 22 | I went away to do nursing , and then I came back here . |
| 23 | ‘ If Gebrec was upset or worried about something and just wanted to be alone to think things over , ’ said Jack , ‘ he might have gone up to the belvedere , or down by the river where we went yesterday to do our painting . ’ |
| 24 | I did n't expect to see her again until late on Monday — I went off to do some walking for the weekend and was taking an extra day . |
| 25 | On Saturday morning , Peter went off to do his rounds of parish patients at Woodborough Hospital . |
| 26 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 27 | She hoisted her umbrella to ward off the light drizzle that had started to fall , gave me a couple of twenty-pound notes , said she 'd look forward to seeing me on Friday , kissed my cheek , then went off to do her shopping . |
| 28 | We stood on the beach at Hastings , and even my quiet father cheered as wave after wave of the RAF went out to do just that . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's what I went out to do , and I 'm just glad it went right . ’ |
| 30 | When only seven years old , he was given arms and went out to do battle . |