Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 2 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 3 | I went yesterday for the first time . |
| 4 | A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised . |
| 5 | It was this message which went out in the eighteenth century , and became enshrined in the First Amendment to the American Constitution . |
| 6 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |
| 7 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 8 | She went on to the next cubicle , a simple fractured thumb that even Joe Reynolds had managed to diagnose and set without too much trouble . |
| 9 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 10 | She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny . |
| 11 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 12 | We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat . |
| 13 | We went out in the first round and Lee did n't ask me anything until he 'd hit his drive . |
| 14 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 15 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 16 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 17 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 18 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 19 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 20 | More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time . |
| 21 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 22 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he went back on the twenty-third of April 1950 . |
| 24 | When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee . |
| 25 | We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one . |
| 26 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 27 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 28 | It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town . |
| 29 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |