Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] went [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose you actually managed to escape all the harmful effects of tobacco but your child took up smoking because you smoked and he or she went on to develop one of those dreadful ( and often fatal ) illnesses . |
| 2 | It was by accident that I went there to study English . |
| 3 | I left it a while but they did n't break up , so I went over to see what was going on . |
| 4 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 5 | ‘ They sent them in , ’ says Wright , ‘ so I went along to check out the Roedean girls ’ cricket last summer . |
| 6 | I 'm saying that Park , what the woman said that she went down to check the vans last summer |
| 7 | If I 'm , try and tell me the steps that you went through to work out how you were going to draw your pie charts . |
| 8 | I could think of no response to this remark , so she went on to explain . |
| 9 | The new patient did n't need anything , so she went in to see Donna . |
| 10 | Then she decided that there might not be enough food so she went out to buy potatoes to put in the oven to bake an hour before the guests were due , She was lonely . |
| 11 | ‘ The response was so amazing , ’ Chris recalls , ‘ that we went on to exhibit in London and the business really took off . ’ |
| 12 | So we we moved towards the sound of the glass , and there 's there 's two people in the the garden , so we went down to have a look at them . |
| 13 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 14 | And so they went on to recommend a return to selective education at secondary level , with no radical change in the sixth forms of the new grammar schools , even though some of these might be devoted exclusively to science and technology . |
| 15 | The people fled , only to realize that the teacher had been left behind , so they went back to try and save him . |
| 16 | Its programme called for tax cuts , reduced immigration , and the abolition of traffic wardens and was not taken seriously by many observers , although it went on to win parliamentary representation in the September 1991 general election [ see p. 38444 ] . |
| 17 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |
| 18 | His tank had been in an encounter with a German howitzer and he had been badly burnt , his face , hands and arms requiring extensive plastic surgery , although he went on to run a preparatory school in Sussex . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In that , he was like Wallace and like Norman Lockyer , the first editor of Nature ; but he was unlike them in that he went on to become President of the Royal Society , at the time of the First World War . |
| 21 | He was working against the natural grain of his genius , and the fact that he went on to write two more plays suggests the triumph of will over natural capacity , of idea over sensibility . |
| 22 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 23 | He explained that he went there to look for me . |
| 24 | However , just as the former advertising salesman had proved in a back-alley off St James ' , that location , location and location was not always sacrosanct if you had an exciting and original concept like The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory , so he went on to confirm the theory at The Rib Shack , tucked away in a side street opposite Harrods . |
| 25 | Mahmoud was n't there when he arrived , so he went inside to buy his stamps and then came out to use the wet roller hanging against the wall . |
| 26 | ‘ When he came out they said he 'd lost his mind so he went off to look for it and has n't been seen since . ’ |
| 27 | Then it transpired the guitar I wanted to try did n't have a tremolo bar so he went off to find one . |
| 28 | From this house-painter , he learnt there were other deaf people , and that there was a society in Leeds , so he went along to see for himself . |
| 29 | The dress rehearsal finally ended at four in the afternoon and everyone went home to rest . |
| 30 | Erm I come in , and I went upstairs to see if he were in bed or not ? |