Example sentences of "went on [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his sleepless night , de Castelnau at once went on to the Right Bank and plunged into the work of re-animating the defence . |
| 2 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 3 | As is well known , the Sunday Times case then went on to the European Court of Human Rights which held that the injunction violated Article 10 of the Convention and its right to freedom of expression . |
| 4 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 5 | He started his carrier as a lyrics writer and then went on to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 6 | They were now deeply into their mating dance , oblivious to all that went on beyond the charmed circle of their courtship . |
| 7 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |
| 8 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 9 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 10 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 11 | ‘ Not bad , ’ Gay conceded , and went on with the good work . |
| 12 | Then she went on with the lovely task of making herself the most important lady in Tollemarche . |
| 13 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 14 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 15 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
| 16 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 17 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 18 | Slipping off her muddy shoes , Leonora went on into the big living-room , every nerve on edge as she crept silently across the familiar worn carpet towards the seductive warmth from the stove , but there was still no sign of Penry . |
| 19 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 20 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
| 21 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 22 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 23 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 24 | I then went on in the proper sequence to the pitch control : " And this reduces the pitch . " |
| 25 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
| 26 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 27 | Our first Members ' Evening was held at the Community College on Friday 1st March 1991 and its success can be judged by the fact that it went on until the Social Secretary literally had to call a halt at 11.15 p.m. ! |