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

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1 After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc .
2 Had B lost on the question of law in the Court of Appeal , it is practically inconceivable that the court would not have gone on to deal with the remaining points of appeal .
3 This idea of fair play has gone on to permeate the Challenge as a whole .
4 He had concluded that the new strategy would eventually lead to a resumption of the armed struggle , but , more dubiously , had gone on to suppose that civil rights activities could be treated as if they were an armed insurrection .
5 But win Norwich did and they have since gone on to preserve their First Division lives and reach the FA Cup semi-finals .
6 ‘ I think it is splendid the way the Meat and Livestock Commission has gone on to anticipate consumer needs .
7 Founded by a breakaway group of journalists from Sounds , it has gone on to outsell its progenitor and , though primarily star-oriented , considers it has a duty to reflect the grass-roots scene as well .
8 Detective Inspector Paul Lowden said later that Messam was ‘ a cool , calculating , cunning and wily individual ’ and added : ‘ He would have gone on to rape others if unchecked . ’
9 SINCE LEAVING the ranks of The Velvet Underground for a solo career , John Cale has gone on to record a catalogue of solo work that is both voluminous and impressive .
10 ‘ Me , I 'm like our mother , ’ Ryan had gone on to enlighten her .
11 Lorne had gone on to explore Garfield 's sumptuous lifestyle , the art galleries he superintended in Paris and Rome , his opera-nut vacations in Palma and Beirut , his houses in Tuscany , the Dordogne and Berkeley Square , his Barbadian hideaway , his stud ranches , his Manhattan helicopter pad …
12 It was recalled that Traoré had also promised political pluralism when he seized power in 1968 , had gone on to rule despotically for 22 years , imposing a one-party system .
13 Microsoft has gone on to use the success of Windows itself to attack rivals who have made their names selling applications built around the old MS-DOS regime .
14 The grounds for doubt are very varied but there are now several cases of chimpanzees , and at least one gorilla , who have first been taught to communicate with their human mentors in an apparently rational way by means of stereotyped signs invented by their teachers and have then gone on to use these signs grammatically , generating novel sentences as if the signs formed a genuine human language .
15 Hon. Members might say that that was fair enough , but the Government have gone on to use a bizarre and irrelevant definition of urban and rural .
16 From the ordinary subjects of casual conversation — books , recent plays , acquaintances they had in common — he had gone on to talk about himself .
17 He had gone on to talk of his brother , killed five years earlier in Northern Ireland :
18 Many writers have gone on to argue that such consensual preferences became even stronger once post-war reforms ensured a more representative structure through which citizens could contribute to the formation of a national consensus .
19 I 've always wanted to work in a bank so even if I had n't have had Louisa it 's basically what I 'd have gone on to do anyway .
20 It is possible that the migrants understated such factors because they had actually gone on to do courses .
21 Since then she has gone on to create exhibitions , including Zabat — a stunning series of Blackwomen 's portraits which will be exhibited at Camerawork Gallery in London from March 15–April 19 , and has now edited Passion : Discourses on Blackwomen 's Creativity , recently published by Urban Fox Press .
22 His is in some ways a tragic case : a man of immense talent and massive erudition , gifted with profound insights , who could not say the things he most wanted to say but who , nevertheless , has gone on to say them .
23 ‘ T is not in morals to command success … ’ but as the poet had gone on to say , to deserve it was better still .
24 If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health .
25 But I think Freud would have also gone on to say that he had very good reason for resenting Wilson , because he blamed Wilson personally for the unjust peace , after er Versailles , but er , was indirectly , many people would argue , going to lead to the Second World War , and er , so Freud 's defence I think would be , this man really was responsible .
26 It would have gone on to say , , that cases of food poisoning had risen by fifty percent , and then Mr Chadwick saying , ‘ It 's likely we 're receiving more notifications . ’
27 Ivy had gone on to ask about me : ‘ I believe he is in rather low spirits .
28 Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation .
29 er , er er er , er it , it has n't been , I mean , i it , it was , last night was the first one that had gone on to like over two hundred .
30 Had Prince Charles been an innocent party in the breakdown of his marriage , he could still have gone on to take not only the throne but the leadership of the C of E. But he is not .
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