Example sentences of "went [adv] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 2 | She went on to a safer subject . |
| 3 | The jockey went on to a second success for Playing Truant 's trainer David Gandolfo , partnering Ballyroe Lady to victory in the Tattersalls Mares Only Novices ' Chase . |
| 4 | After a midweek game in London , the cousins went on to a two-day binge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We went along to a ballooning club and pestered people to let us have a free flight . |
| 10 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 11 | The match revealed the Athletico lads had lost none of their flair and inadequacies for the game as they narrowly went down to a 7–2 defeat . |
| 12 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 13 | However , he went down to a promising Dubliner Noel Higgins of Glasnevin 13–11 . |
| 14 | So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing . |
| 15 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby was full of praise for his reserve side who went down to a single goal defeat to star-studded Manchester United Reserve side at Roker Park on Wednesday evening . |
| 16 | We danced until the early hours of the morning when , exhausted , we all went together to a large bedroom and fell asleep . |
| 17 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 18 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 19 | From time to time one of the team got to his feet , went over to a neat pile of mortar bombs , picked one up and slid it gently down the muzzle of the mortar . |
| 20 | ‘ Love one , ’ said Greg , and watched as Hilary went over to a little kettle on a hot-plate in the corner of the room and slopped boiling water over a tea-bag . |
| 21 | Peter went over to a carved oak buffet where drinks were laid out , and at the sound of clinking glass Marc said over his shoulder , ‘ Do n't start knocking it back . |
| 22 | The next day , Jellicoe and the guide went off to a nearby village , arranging to meet Bergé and his men on the beach . |
| 23 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 24 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 25 | Wakefield went behind to a fourth-minute penalty by Chris Smith . |
| 26 | To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct . |
| 27 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 28 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 29 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 30 | Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London . |