Example sentences of "[adv] went [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 The meeting was mostly a ‘ Fun out of doors ’ one , so Jill soon went off to search the wood to complete her collection of ferns .
2 As well as the joking , we just went out to enjoy the practice .
3 The two Frenchwomen greeted one another with affectionate kisses and Madame Gebrec promptly went off to organise the lunch , leaving her two visitors to chat .
4 Final touches for a midnight special performance by make-up lady Barbara Daley — the lady who later went on to do the make-up for Lady Diana on her wedding day .
5 His son Benjamin Lee ( 1798–1868 ) whose interest in politics and public life was rewarded when he became Lord Mayor of Dublin , later went on to represent the city as a Member of Parliament .
6 This then later went on to become the Farnborough ramp .
7 Between 25 and 30 interested people aged from about ten upwards went along to learn the North-East step the Durham Hornpipes , among others , in the centre 's dance studio .
8 They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt .
9 The investigator said he would try his luck with the scenery-watchers in the dome-car , with apparently the same result , and from there he presumably went in to see the Lorrimores , who apart from Xanthe were still in seclusion .
10 Hero McCullough even went on to take the third round in his victory over the tough Cuban Joel Casamayor .
11 Anyway , in the fire the master risked his life helping all the servants out of the house , then bravely went back to save the mad woman .
12 The ‘ Eastern Treaties ’ were ratified on 17 May , with the CDU deciding to abstain , and Brandt then went on to negotiate the ‘ Basic Treaty ’ defining future relations with East Germany , on the principle of two German states existing in one nation .
13 Lord Taylor then went on to criticise the way in which the media reported some cases .
14 The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm .
15 Lewis then went on to record the months of companionship and collaboration , during which they had evolved the characters of the tough young microbe hunter Martin Arrowsmith and his boss Max Gottleb — who de Kruif modelled on Jacques Loeb and his own former chief , Frederick Novy .
16 After an indifferent start to the season Surrey 's David Ward bounced back with a NatWest century against Glamorgan , then went on to record the fastest first-class hundred of the season ( 70 balls ) against Northants
17 Baker then went on to emphasise the need for a wide-bandwidth system to cope with services such as home shopping , banking , burglar alarms , fire alarms , and message transmission .
18 He then went on to describe the very considerable commercial and economic disadvantages experienced by peripheral industrial countries compared with the enormous advantages enjoyed by the privileged centrally placed Golden Triangle countries and called to question the entire concept of a European budget which incredibly penalised the poorer peripheral countries instead of applying the penalty the other way round .
19 Loxton then went on to describe the man : 5′8″-5′9″ tall , clean-shaven , full-featured , wearing a navy blue suit and no hat .
20 The head then went on to describe the aims and provision of special education .
21 We then went on to describe the Johnston-McClelland model of visual word recognition and the Cohort model of auditory word recognition .
22 The statement then went on to oppose the introduction of divorce on the grounds of the protection of ‘ the common good ’ by the state .
23 The judge then went on to assess the damages at the figure of $200,000 , being an increase of 8 per cent .
24 Like the young men in Paris , he also designed for the opera and ballet , and then went on to design the famous stained glass windows of the new Coventry Cathedral .
25 then went on to distinguish the case of a party ‘ deprived of his title as a result of a forged document which he did not execute ’ from the case where the party ‘ has been deprived as a result of a document which he himself executed , albeit under a mistake induced by fraud ’ and commented that ‘ when the court comes to exercise its discretion , different considerations may well apply . ’
26 Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme .
27 The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case .
28 Mozart reported to Constanze that Carl loved the opera ( which was also attended that night by his old enemy Salieri ) , and then went on to discuss the shortcomings of Carl 's education — just like any other anxious parent .
29 The aptly named Extraordinary Dancers who were booked to appear in the highly sophisticated Folies-Bergère and then went on to tour the world
30 She put everything away in the kitchen cupboards , then went out to lock the car .
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