Example sentences of "[coord] go [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour .
2 The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics .
3 She wanted to jump straight up from this padded and sheet-covered bench , once her blood donation was completed , and go up to Labour and Delivery to see , or at least hear about , Faye , but she knew from experience that giving blood left her drained and tired , and giving two hundred and fifty mils extra tonight would really sap her physical resources .
4 These two factors alone may well be responsible for making would-be divers leave and go on to other things .
5 Take the left hand gate and follow the track to Jofless Cottage and go on to High Jofless .
6 She even acknowledges she was tempted to give up her job at one stage and go on to social security as she would then have been entitled to free legal aid .
7 Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation .
8 But Mr Rickman , who co-starred with Bruce Willis in the movie Die Hard , and went on to other leading screen roles including the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , is not appearing for superstar 's wages .
9 He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers .
10 The street was narrow , cobbled , full of old buildings which were joined together and went back to medieval times .
11 I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in .
12 They saw fewer Satyajit Ray films now , and went less to Indian restaurants ; Eva gave up learning Urdu and listening to sitar music at breakfast .
13 Figure 2 shows what happens when you tell the computer to obey exactly the same drawing rule , but going on to various depths of recursion .
14 Roy Poynter and Derek Seager both won one , but went down to unbeaten Dave Stenning .
15 If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) .
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