Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | And then from that school you went on to another one ? |
| 9 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 10 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 11 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If she went on like this then she was going to have trouble when she got back to London . |
| 14 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 15 | I was surprised when we went on past this , because the camp seemed to have ended . |
| 16 | We were determined to finish , we did not hear the doodle-bug noise , or any thuds so we went on till 12.30 . |
| 17 | But a fair number of them went on to greater things . |
| 18 | The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions . |
| 19 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 20 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 21 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
| 22 | So they went on with great difficulty . |
| 23 | They went on with this banter as they drove down the hill and along the road to the beach . |
| 24 | They went on in this vein for several minutes while Ganem , occasionally shaking his head in disgust , tried to continue his conversation with Coleman . |
| 25 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
| 26 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 27 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 28 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 29 | He went on about various things but I only half heard him . |
| 30 | He went on to 58 , putting on 154 with Lloyd , the captain batting beautifully for a century to take his team out of trouble . |