Example sentences of "he went on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking past her , his stride long and rangy , he went on into the house . |
| 2 | He went on down the road . |
| 3 | He went on through the files but found nothing else of interest . |
| 4 | And so he went on through the calculator to get the number of ways for ten buttons — 3,628,800 . |
| 5 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 6 | Having left the house of the famous Bess of Hardwick , he went on to the care of yet another Bess . |
| 7 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 8 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 9 | He went on to the barn , where the farm workers had already finished eating and started dancing . |
| 10 | Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes . |
| 11 | He went on to the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , for two years before poor eyesight ended plans for a naval career , and he returned to Eton . |
| 12 | I think he went on to the parapet and the tocsin was sounded to make him run . |
| 13 | He went on with the conversation , in my mind , ‘ Do you remember your underpants then ? ’ |
| 14 | So , ’ he went on with the air of finalising the subject , ‘ I 've narrowed my horizons . ’ |
| 15 | She took a step backwards and this seemed to satisfy him , because he went on up the ladder . |
| 16 | He went on around the block , again and again , until a space opened up in a barely-lit alley and he slipped the car in ahead of a Mercedes driver who , to judge from how he leaned on the horn , was well along the way to a heart condition . |