Example sentences of "[pron] went on [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
| 4 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 5 | It is difficult to assess the significance of the various negotiations which went on between the British and the Indians during the early stages of the war . |
| 6 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 7 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 8 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
| 10 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 11 | She went on to a safer subject . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then she went on with the lovely task of making herself the most important lady in Tollemarche . |
| 14 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 15 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 16 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 17 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 18 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 19 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | and erm I actually received twenty seven and twopence a week , to start with it was paid weekly but subsequently erm we went on to the monthly erm payments and er but that 's what I had and er I used to pay my sister fifteen shillings a week for , for lodgings . |
| 22 | We went on towards the double doors . |
| 23 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 24 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 25 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 26 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 27 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 28 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 29 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 30 | Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes . |