Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 2 | After a midweek game in London , the cousins went on to a two-day binge . |
| 3 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 4 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 5 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 6 | He then went on to a pre-foundation course , then the intermediate course at Sutton Art School , followed by two years at Wimbledon Art School . |
| 7 | I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch . |
| 8 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 9 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 10 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 11 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 13 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 14 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 15 | That went on for a long time . |
| 16 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 17 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 18 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 19 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 20 | This went on for a long time . |
| 21 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 22 | Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena . |
| 23 | From then onwards the transformation of the English landscape , or of a considerable part of it , went on at a revolutionary pace . |
| 24 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 25 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 26 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone . |
| 28 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 29 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 30 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |