Example sentences of "gone [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field .
2 Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order .
3 Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art .
4 But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning .
5 He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before .
6 I thought oh no , she 's gone on to a vegan diet .
7 He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’
8 ‘ Looking for you — Mick and Terry have gone on to a club .
9 He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants .
10 That is because the offspring of the traditional older working class have gone on to the more pleasant and remunerative employments , the employments that are also called work .
11 I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women .
12 After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital .
13 Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked .
14 In addition , it believes Encina could have quite conceivably gone on to the ES/9000 mainframe instead of Tuxedo , but thinks IBM 's deal with USL for that technology is effectively a spoiler for Amdahl Corp 's Tuxedo TP system offering on its IBM-compatible Unix mainframes .
15 I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one .
16 He was glad he had n't gone on to the Reserve after the Armistice , as Tubby had — though , if he had , he would have stayed retired .
17 After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise .
18 Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test .
19 That 's been on a real high and then gone down to a low to nothing .
20 On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family .
21 Had he gone down to the bottom of the hill and worked his way up to Belvedere Road from the south-east ?
22 After her abortive attempt to break into journalism , she had gone down to the beach , flung off her dress , and plunged into the water at Backyards .
23 He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it .
24 Rather too pertinent , I thought , for the place 's original dweller , who must have gone down to the Atlantic in a small boat on many a stormy night .
25 You get wet , sweaty , but there 's nothing to dry the sweat off , not sweating and drying off , so they feel clammy , okay , so we 've looked at their colour and we 've felt their skin and we 've felt that it 's horrible and clammy and cold , what about their pulse , we 've gone down to the pulse now
26 After his conversation with the Zoo Curator Mr Wolski had gone down to the eagles and stared into Minch 's empty cage .
27 She thought Finn must have gone down to the workroom .
28 ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened .
29 That was why it was ever brought to light so it 's gone down to the next generation .
30 I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna .
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