Example sentences of "[pron] went [adv] to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling curious , I went over to say hello . |
| 2 | I went on to say that local authority support for public libraries which simply put books with a homosexual theme on to their shelves would not constitute promotion of homosexuality . |
| 3 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 4 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 5 | I went on to say in the new world in which we live legislation has grown like topsy and thus requires more drastic pruning . |
| 6 | I went on to say ‘ it would be the exact opposite . ’ |
| 7 | She helped me dress in my new going-away outfit before I went down to say goodbye to my parents . |
| 8 | Ag again with the , the recommendations I think you , you , you went on to say can I , can I go forward in , in getting the recommendations erm without actually explaining what you were doing , you just came back and said so I 'll go ahead and get the recommendations and come back and see you in two weeks ' time and like what recommendation ? |
| 9 | She went on to say : |
| 10 | She went on to say : ‘ One cut out a scene , because one did n't want trouble . ’ |
| 11 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 12 | The source says : ‘ She went on to say that she had done more for the Royal Family than any of its other members . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 14 | She went on to say that ‘ Everybody knows exactly who she is … . |
| 15 | Fired with enthusiasm , she went on to say that she intended to go to Wickhams , the East End 's own department store , in the Mile End Road . |
| 16 | She went on to say that |
| 17 | Isle of and they sh what she went on to say is erm I hope to redress this in the shortly in other words she 's shortly going to but I must say I like the expression long fingering you know bloody idle you know . |
| 18 | She went on to say that ‘ many of these pond sites are not legally protected . |
| 19 | Individuals among them went on to say : |
| 20 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 21 | Then they went on to say why she . |
| 22 | He went on to say that there was nothing at all from the last decade for which he could give Mrs Thatcher credit . |
| 23 | He went on to say that the Met failed in this respect , and it is certainly the case that in the late Sixties some policemen would have taken the evidence with them , later , with a conjuror 's flourish , producing sackfuls of cannabis from behind the furniture with cries of ‘ Hullo John ! |
| 24 | Coalition , Baldwin told Chamberlain , ‘ must of course be stamped on ’ ; he went on to say ‘ that if R.M. did approach him he would reply that there was no occasion for a Coalition . |
| 25 | But even he went on to say that gossip has ‘ a kind of divinity ’ . |
| 26 | He went on to say that if I did not return I would be making myself voluntarily homeless and would never be re-housed . |
| 27 | He went on to say that another enduring reality lies in America 's interests across the Atlantic — expanding the definition of across-the-Atlantic to include the Middle East , both because of its considerable economic resources and because it was home to some of ‘ our closest friends ’ . |
| 28 | He went on to say that it was irrelevant whether Britain had an industrial base at all if it could be shown that it would be more sensible , from a European point of view , for Britain to become a service nation importing its manufactured product requirements . |
| 29 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |
| 30 | He went on to say that the solutions are diversification , restraint , restructuring and strategic alliances . |