Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 2 | Thomas More went on to become Lord Chancellor of England and was executed for opposing the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn . |
| 3 | He loyally went on to call Mr Kinnock happy , open , generous , and possessed of a thing you might not suspect , timing … |
| 4 | Unlike my old man I did n't go much on pubs , the dogs or cribbage but I still went on supporting West Ham most Saturday afternoons . |
| 5 | I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine , and still went on reading Jane Eyre . |
| 6 | Watched by the players from Holywood — who later went on to beat Annadale 6–2 to strengthen their title credentials — Garvey started tentatively , fell behind early on and were then left to chase it . |
| 7 | In general , these joint muderris/muftiliks seem to have been at the or levels , their holders receiving 50 akce ; but there are instances on the one hand of lower-ranking posts-in about 940/1533–4 , for example , a muderris/mufti of Agras ( Aghrus , also Aghras , now Atabey ) received 30 akce a day , then moved on to become mufti in Ankara ( and probably muderris , although Ata'i does not mention a medrese ) with 40 akce and on the other hand cases , particularly in Amasya , Manisa and Damascus , where the holders received 60 , 80 or even 100 akce a day . |
| 8 | Electric installations were smashed with sledgehammers and then switched on melting connexions in complete destruction . |
| 9 | He breezed through the ‘ school cert ’ ( which he had to take in UCS 's cellars because of the air raids ) got a First and a doctorate at Imperial then went on to research posts here and in America . |
| 10 | I then went on to use breastmilk storage bags to minimise confusion . |
| 11 | Chris Nicholl who played for Villa and then went on to manage Southampton and Terry Venables … who knows he may even try to buy the club lock stock and barrel … |
| 12 | ‘ Almost due north of Koraloona is Hodges Island , named after the painter who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage , then went on to paint India for Warren Hastings . |
| 13 | The Chairman then thanked Hilda Lodge , who , although retiring as Vice-Chairman , was continuing to serve as Chairman of the Publicity Committee and introduced Joan Daniels the new Vice-Chairman ; she then went on to thank Kay Maskell and Jean Parmiter the retiring Chairmen of the Finance and Training Sub-Committees . |
| 14 | He then went on to open Deakin Electrical Supplies ' new premises in Old Colwyn , where he stressed the importance of established companies growing and the need for inward investment . |
| 15 | Mosley spoke for an hour and then went on to answer questions . |
| 16 | He then went on to attack Fields over the proliferation of licence applications to the CAA ( for routes that included Perth , Port Stanley , Barbados and Toronto ) which made Virgin look ‘ absurd ’ , when the airline had neither the planes to fly those routes , nor the finances to acquire them . |
| 17 | The WID then went on to encourage women to increase their productivity and saw their poverty as a reflection on underdevelopment , and not a result of their social status . |
| 18 | Steve Thompson from Gloucester is the new world karate champion … in the finals in Italy he won his class … he won the champion of champions fight and then went on to help Britain win the team title … |
| 19 | Thirty-six of the forty women said ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working ? ’ , and most of the women then went on to offer examples of topics they thought about . |
| 20 | Meanwhile Mr Jagger has been attempting to put the record straight about his musical colleague , Mr William Wyman , the bass ( sic ) player , who recently declared that the belipped chanteur was ‘ an egomaniac ’ and then went on to dispute Mr Jagger 's claim to be the author of the seminal lied , ‘ Jumping Jack Flash ’ . |
| 21 | ’ He then went on to congratulate Nichols on the job he was doing . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ answered Raffaella and then went on to tell Julia with no self-consciousness at all that she became a prostitute in Rome , where the dollar-rich American soldiers were prepared to pay a small fortune to a good-looking , elegant girl . |
| 23 | Erik thanked referees Crawford Allan ( Centralised Banking ) and Stephen McKie ( Glasgow International Division ) for their contribution to the success of the tournament and then went on to pay tribute to Cubby Lorimer who retires from the Bank at the end of May . |