Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Those All Blacks went on to win every one of 30 tour games , including Tests against Ireland , Wales , England and France , and were arguably the finest ever to visit these shores .
2 The Yankees went on to assemble an unequalled record of 22 World Series victories ; generations of Sox fans have not a single one to cherish .
3 It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists .
4 The barricades go up to block an illegal rave .
5 There seems little doubt that the richest clubs went on evading the maximum wage regulation .
6 The fresh and crispies went on to receive a great deal more acclaim than The Chorus who were hardly noticed , even within their hometown .
7 So let's just er to put it in context again , we saw that on the day of the ascension Jesus instructed his friends to go on proclaiming the good news throughout the world to help others become disciples , and bring to them , and bring them to membership of the church through baptism .
8 Seventy-four per cent of women who were married in 1900–9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more .
9 Couples went on to score a six under par 66 , and with partner Davis Love shooting 68 , the favourites finished the day on the 10 under par total of 134 .
10 It means following the ignis fatuus , the ‘ will o ’ the wisp' that traditionally leads travellers into bog or quicksand ; an analogue to the multiple wanderings of Book 111 is Frodo staring at the corpse-candles in chapter 2 of Book IV , to be warned by Gollum not to heed them , or the dead , rotten , phantasmal faces in the marshes below : ‘ Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles .
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