Example sentences of "went on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Afterwards I went on to peeling vegetables . |
| 2 | She went on to the balcony , pulling on her silk kimono against the cold night . |
| 3 | Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation . |
| 4 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 5 | Young Rawlins went on to the most arduous part of the game — attempting to memorise the host of gifts on a conveyor belt , ranging from a cuddly toy to a microwave . |
| 6 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 7 | The aircraft returned to Klagenfurt and then went on to Naples where he spent two nights before flying to England on 24 May , he said . |
| 8 | She went on to officially hand it over to OXRAD , the disabled sailing group based at Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford . |
| 9 | From Eric Abbott he went on to Canterbury to talk to the archbishop , Geoffrey Fisher . |
| 10 | He then went on to London , to hold talks with Beaverbrook and other Air Ministry officials . |
| 11 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 12 | All the others went on to be priests . |
| 13 | ‘ They all went on to be priests and then the Troubles started and I left too . |
| 14 | A few , like Cliff Michelmore , went on to bigger things . |
| 15 | At once Frau Nordern went on to the attack . |
| 16 | That 's why we went on to Seattle and Phoenix and worked our way back east again through the south , through Texas , Florida and Tennessee and it ended up going more than twice its length because of the success of the show . |
| 17 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 18 | Greig went on to a century but West Indies won the match . |
| 19 | He went on to 58 , putting on 154 with Lloyd , the captain batting beautifully for a century to take his team out of trouble . |
| 20 | Gomes went on to an unbeaten century , thanks to Malcolm Marshall . |
| 21 | Greenidge was dropped on 6 and made a further 74 , Kallicharran on 25 and went on to 42 , and King was unbeaten on 31 after giving a chance on 5. 215 was the kind of score to promise a close finish , and Boycott , Willey and Larkins saw them well on the way . |
| 22 | Richards was missed when 5 and went on to 62 , the same score as Richardson , with all the batsmen making useful contributions . |
| 23 | I went on to Birmingham 's All Saints Hospital , which is cheek by jowl with Winston Green Prison . |
| 24 | The legislation went on to the statute book in July 1986 and the new system was finally introduced in April 1988 . |
| 25 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 26 | The afternoon ending , we took Fiona home and went on to Shellerton House where Perkin came through for drinks , Tremayne went out to see the horses and Gareth returned from a football match . |
| 27 | Scottish graduates went on to the major foreign universities , notably to Paris , and to Cologne , Louvain , Bologna and Montpellier . |
| 28 | Later he became the New Yorker 's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener . |
| 29 | By contrast , Jack Nicklaus made an eagle three and went on to birdie the next two holes , turning around a deficit of four shots to win the tournament . |
| 30 | He went on to Westminster Hospital Medical School , where he qualified as a doctor in 1954 . |