Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 2 | Despite his sleepless night , de Castelnau at once went on to the Right Bank and plunged into the work of re-animating the defence . |
| 3 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 4 | As is well known , the Sunday Times case then went on to the European Court of Human Rights which held that the injunction violated Article 10 of the Convention and its right to freedom of expression . |
| 5 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 6 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 7 | He started his carrier as a lyrics writer and then went on to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 8 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |
| 9 | She went on to the next cubicle , a simple fractured thumb that even Joe Reynolds had managed to diagnose and set without too much trouble . |
| 10 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 11 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
| 12 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 13 | Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again . |
| 14 | At sixteen , Coleby left school with two ‘ O ’ levels , while Peter went on to the sixth form . |
| 15 | They were now deeply into their mating dance , oblivious to all that went on beyond the charmed circle of their courtship . |
| 16 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |
| 17 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 18 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 19 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 20 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 21 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 22 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 23 | ‘ Not bad , ’ Gay conceded , and went on with the good work . |
| 24 | Then she went on with the lovely task of making herself the most important lady in Tollemarche . |
| 25 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 26 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 27 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
| 28 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 29 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 30 | Slipping off her muddy shoes , Leonora went on into the big living-room , every nerve on edge as she crept silently across the familiar worn carpet towards the seductive warmth from the stove , but there was still no sign of Penry . |