Example sentences of "they went on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals among them went on to say : |
| 2 | At the same time , as a result of Spanish-American fiction 's growing popularity , the work of the earlier writers mentioned became more widely known and some of them went on to enhance their reputation by producing new works in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 3 | The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions . |
| 4 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 5 | But a fair number of them went on to greater things . |
| 6 | Many of them went on to fly , and some of them to die , for their country . |
| 7 | They went on to suggest that where complex insider activities are being carried out in a sub-language designed to exclude the uninformed , the best ethnography would probably be carried out by the insider/ethnographer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ After I split up with Godfrey they went on and on about how I should find someone else . |
| 10 | They went on to finish third in the finals in West Germany . |
| 11 | And so they went on . |
| 12 | They went on waiting . |
| 13 | FROM their very beginnings therefore , and increasingly as they went on , the Iran and contra policies departed even from the strange norms of covert operations . |
| 14 | No one had seen them steal except myself , but they went on running nonetheless . |
| 15 | They went on . |
| 16 | They went on playing traditional sevens and as they were not inconvenienced by their one weakness , which is their lack of appetite for scrummaging , they played everybody else off the colony by an even larger margin than usual . |
| 17 | As a result they went on to argue for sole custody in step-parent situations on the assumption of children having one ‘ psychological parent ’ with whom they maintain a continuous relationship and bond . |
| 18 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
| 19 | It was clear that they were in a trap but still they went on until they reached a roadside filling station and café . |
| 20 | But They went on about Hitler . |
| 21 | After confiscating their musical instruments , the police allowed them to proceed and they went on to parade — much more quietly than they would have liked . |
| 22 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 23 | How they went on from being carried and put in things to sitting in the front seat of cars , opening things for themselves , unlocking the tame mysteries of life . |
| 24 | And so they went on to recommend a return to selective education at secondary level , with no radical change in the sixth forms of the new grammar schools , even though some of these might be devoted exclusively to science and technology . |
| 25 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 26 | After leaving Angela 's mummy 's shoes at the repairer 's , they went on to Jessica Turvey 's house , where they tied up Joe while they went inside . |
| 27 | The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound . |
| 28 | They went on to urge that the national system should employ tests susceptible to a wide range of mode of presentation , operation and response . |
| 29 | And so they went on , making suggestions and turning them down , and the evening passed with incredible speed . |
| 30 | They went on for some way in silence . |