Example sentences of "[pron] went on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next night I went on without Dutch courage and flattened a drunken heckler with a couple of speedy put-downs that came from nowhere ( 't was I , your valiant defence mechanism again ) and a new career was born . |
| 2 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 3 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 4 | So I went on to reciprocal for 10 minutes to seek a more friendly environment , which I did , and then set course again . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 6 | If I went on like this , I would fulfil the gloomiest fears of Bill Baudelaire , the Brigadier and , above all , John Millington . |
| 7 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 8 | The power-struggles which went on across much of the period were reflected right through society , and the surviving court rolls for Sussex often illuminate activities of considerable violence . |
| 9 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 10 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 11 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 12 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 13 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |
| 14 | Sussex 's most remarkable Saxon church , Sompting , illustrates well the process of extension and adaptation which went on over several centuries , and particularly as South Saxon society reached its peak before Norman infiltration . |
| 15 | The issue of woman as victim as opposed to woman as survivor was tackled head on by Polish director Zofia Kalinska whose work showing women as bearers of demonic energy culminated in the formation of the Magic Circle , which went on in 1988 to tour a collectively devised piece called Nominate Filiae . |
| 16 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | I usually left the night meeting about 2.00 pm , but quite often after that Anthony [ Eden ] had long telephone conversations with Guy Mollet , the Prime Minister of France , which went on until 4.00 or 5.00 am . |
| 18 | And then from that school you went on to another one ? |
| 19 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 20 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |
| 21 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 22 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 23 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 24 | If she went on like this then she was going to have trouble when she got back to London . |
| 25 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 26 | I was surprised when we went on past this , because the camp seemed to have ended . |
| 27 | We were determined to finish , we did not hear the doodle-bug noise , or any thuds so we went on till 12.30 . |
| 28 | But a fair number of them went on to greater things . |
| 29 | The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions . |
| 30 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |