Example sentences of "[noun sg] went [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cutting went on to quote from the review , which had certainly been unusually savage : ‘ puerile nonsense ’ and ‘ unmitigated twaddle ’ were two of the phrases Sykes had used . |
| 2 | He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory . |
| 3 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 4 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 5 | After a tour of operations with the famous John Cats Eyes Cunningham , the Author went on to fly with the Fighter Interception Unit and was the Author of our Operational Flying Club series in the April , May and June 1992 issues . |
| 6 | So anyway yesterday afternoon I was checking through it when the phone went again to ask about the washing machine and I was looking through the paper to see whether , and they 'd put it in this week ! |
| 7 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 8 | Your correspondent went on to speculate about the likely cost of reinsuring through this vehicle the 1982 account of syndicates 317/661 , managed by this company . |
| 9 | If Dreadnought went on sinking at the present rate , in ten minutes the hole would n't be above the waterline , but below . |
| 10 | The report went on to comment on the absence of objective criteria for setting health priorities and to emphasise the need for health service research to be multidisciplinary . |