Example sentences of "[coord] went [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renbourn emerged from the British folk scene in the sixties and went on to form the acclaimed acoustic group Pentangle , and also released a number of albums with Stefan Grossman following the demise of the band . |
| 2 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 3 | However , defending champion Lyons was in top form and went on to take the chequered flag for the second year running . |
| 4 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 5 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 6 | ‘ Very uncomfortable , I expect , ’ said Fenella and went on studying the black stone buildings to see if there was a small , partly hidden door that they might use to get inside . |
| 7 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 8 | Glasgow gangster Frank Murphy changed his name to Frank Earn and went on to win the Scottish Welterweight Boxing Championship , but he was the exception . |
| 9 | Fitted with a Renault engine , it first flew in 1937 and went on to become the standard Soviet primary trainer throughout World War Two . |
| 10 | After basic religious toleration was conceded in 1689 , the dissenters turned their back once and for all on Anglicanism and went on to develop the distinctive spirituality which was to play so dynamic a role in the revolutionary social and economic changes of the next century . |
| 11 | He had been dropped off a hard chance when just twelve were needed , but went on to hit the winning four off Botham , and his eight wickets and two useful knocks earned him the Man of the Match award . |