Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " 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 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 .
3 But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears .
4 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 .
5 I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run .
6 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 .
7 How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty .
8 Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again .
9 At sixteen , Coleby left school with two ‘ O ’ levels , while Peter went on to the sixth form .
10 There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time .
11 Most , in both categories , left after taking the School Certificate ( if not sooner ) , but a trickle went on into the sixth form and even to the universities .
12 ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play .
13 Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration .
14 The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 .
15 This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation .
16 The arguments over who he should drive for went on until the last minute when it was decided that Clark should make the fateful trip to Germany .
17 Then I saw an advert for a new consciousness-raising group in Spare Rib , and went along to the first meeting .
18 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
19 When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee .
20 She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny .
21 He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill .
22 At least 12 other women candidates went through to the second round of voting .
23 You know and it even went through to the next floor you know into the bedroom like .
24 Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century .
25 He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat .
26 He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed .
27 Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury .
28 The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast .
29 Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green .
30 We went up to the second floor and knocked at Manisha 's flat .
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