Example sentences of "go [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob tried to imagine Morris completing the trainee scheme , joining the pensions fund , and going on to groove out the diagonal of Hand and Ball Court morning and night for twenty or thirty years . |
| 2 | Bramah quotes Grant Richards as having enquired in the Times Literary Supplement , ‘ Is there really such a person as Ernest Bramah ? ’ and ( Dame ) E. Rose Macaulay [ q.v. ] as having written in the Nation and Athenaeum , ‘ The crude stilted Conan Doylish English of the detective stories certainly goes far to bear out the common theory that Ernest Bramah has a literary dual personality . ’ |
| 3 | It was no accident , therefore , that Bukharin went on to point out the real advances already made by the Soviet economy , particularly in industry , during the preceding period . |
| 4 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
| 5 | This group then went on to set up the Teifi Valley Economic and Social Regeneration Project ( TVESRP ) , the aim of which was to undertake more projects which would create employment in that part of Dyfed . |
| 6 | Leeds should have gone on to pile up a big score but after Wallace had seen a close-range shot blocked by Coton and Gary McAllister 's lob was cleared off the line by Kernaghan , the tide turned . |
| 7 | ‘ They sent them in , ’ says Wright , ‘ so I went along to check out the Roedean girls ’ cricket last summer . |
| 8 | Decisively outvoted , Hoare went away to think up an alternative plan . |