Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Patten went on to draw the obvious conclusion . |
2 | He was glad to hear that their priests were telling the people that the potato murrain was a visitation of the Almighty ; he only hoped they went on to draw the full lesson . |
3 | Peter Ueberroth , son of a travelling aluminium salesman , worked his way through college , single-handedly built a $300 million business , went on to organize the 1984 Olympics , became Time magazine 's Man of the Year and the commissioner of baseball . |
4 | The Council of Europe , which most European states joined , met annually , went on to create the European Court of Human Rights and provided an early step towards co-operation with West Germany , which joined in 1950 . |
5 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
6 | The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm . |
7 | However , defending champion Lyons was in top form and went on to take the chequered flag for the second year running . |
8 | Hero McCullough even went on to take the third round in his victory over the tough Cuban Joel Casamayor . |
9 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
10 | Todd did appear in the Raiders side who beat Balmain in the Sydney Grand Final , but was replaced in extra time by Peter Jackson , who went on to score the winning try . |
11 | Mr Lamont went on to slam the German Bundesbank for forcing devaluation . |
12 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
13 | True to form , Wolfgang went on to denigrate the entire Weber household except his beloved : Josepha was worthless , fat and a liar ; Aloysia insincere , bad-tempered and a flirt ; Sophie ( the youngest ) ‘ feather-headed ’ . |
14 | The Palestinian gunmen crouching behind the sand embankment across Boulevard Ariss went on watching the Syrian tanks , ignoring the sound . |
15 | Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line . |
16 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
17 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
18 | Those players - Beaumont , Smith , Cotton , Uttley and the rest — became part of northern folklore and , more importantly , went on to form the hard core of the England team who won the Grand Slam in 1980 . |
19 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
20 | He went on to chide the Fifth Army : |
21 | He went on to repeat the Prime Minister 's bland assurance that , far from experiencing poverty , most students were better off than they had ever been before . |
22 | In the same interview from which I quoted , Mr. Bickerstaffe went on to repeat the high priority that NUPE attaches to increasing the minimum wage — a proposal which the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) has already said would cost the NHS between £400 million and £500 million . |
23 | He went on to exploit the complete range of types and styles from what is practically a secular ‘ Netherland ’ motet in two partes , corresponding here to the ottava and sestina of the sonnet text , to the completely Italianate lighter forms in the tradition of the simplest type of frottola such as the North Italian villotte and the canzone villanesche alla napolitana of which he published a collection in 1545 . |
24 | Consequently , the Commission went on to examine the joint venture under Articles |
25 | There seems little doubt that the richest clubs went on evading the maximum wage regulation . |
26 | He went on to commend the interpretive skills of Richard Benson , who made the halftone negatives and worked closely with the craftsmen at Meriden Gravure in Meriden , Connecticut , who printed the plates in tritone ( which involves making three negatives — for light , dark and middle tones — for each print , and two passes through the press ) . |
27 | This led in Britain to the setting up the Meteorological Office under Captain FitzRoy , formerly of HMS Beagle , who went on to make the first weather forecasts in Britain . |
28 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
29 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
30 | After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship . |