Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on to a safer subject . |
| 2 | ‘ I see , ’ the Doctor went on with a harder edge in his voice , ‘ that you are the sort of hypocritical egomaniac who talks about betrayal when he 's condemning thousands of his own people in Haiti and millions in Africa and elsewhere to living the lives of mere insects ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It seems , ’ he went on in a calmer voice , ‘ that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction . ’ |
| 4 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 5 | We went in for a closer look . |
| 6 | Mahmoud turned on his heel and went off without a further word . |
| 7 | I went up for a closer look . |