Example sentences of "went on to the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 Despite his sleepless night , de Castelnau at once went on to the Right Bank and plunged into the work of re-animating the defence .
3 The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually .
4 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 .
5 In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year .
6 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 .
7 He started his carrier as a lyrics writer and then went on to the Daily Telegraph .
8 But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears .
9 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 .
10 I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run .
11 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 .
12 How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty .
13 Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again .
14 At sixteen , Coleby left school with two ‘ O ’ levels , while Peter went on to the sixth form .
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