Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ type of lad ’ who once became an apprentice now goes on to take an engineering degree and is replaced at that qualification level by a different category of young person .
2 Our eyes lit up on reading in the Wall Street Journal that the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has said that it plans to respond to foreign competition by rebalancing its telephone call charges to make long distance calls cheaper and local calls more expensive , but it was a false alarm and you can all go back to sleep again : the piece goes on to quote an official saying that no decision about a rate structure had been made and that any change wo n't occur before 1995 at the earliest .
3 She then goes on to read an account of a fight in Keith Waterhouse 's There Is a Happy Land ( 1957 ) and to talk about fights in general .
4 It is unbecoming to go on hating an enemy like this once a conflict is over .
5 Sorry I was going to go down to get an authorization from Age Concern , I missed the first bit , but erm if resources are allowed for this work , would it not be better to aim them at priority areas , and not wards , I mean , in other words , to put it to the areas that needed most .
6 I was going on to give an explanation , which may help the hon. Gentleman .
7 Angie Bowie : ‘ As Christmas drew near , ‘ Space Oddity ’ became a hit single in England , going on to win an Ivor Novello Award .
8 For example , the pupils may learn about the principles of environmental control in class before going on to complete an assignment on some aspect of pollution , as happened in Bridge of Don Academy .
9 But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey .
10 Oh , my God ! look at those silly buggers , they 're going back to take an encore .
11 Although many patients are prescribed psychotropic medication , only a small proportion of these will go on to take an overdose .
12 The child who has been told that he is ‘ useless ’ , ‘ stupid ’ or will ‘ never amount to anything ’ will go on to become an adult whose Inner Face is that of a worthless individual — even If events prove that the truth is very different .
13 All being well , it will now go on to become an infant and will be born around 40 weeks after conception takes place .
14 After retirement these expectations may no longer even be relevant , yet habits die hard and probably patterns of caring have already been established which will go on exerting an influence even though there is no longer any need .
15 Buying a small Kent engineering company , Wire & Plastic Products , ( WPP ) he went on to create an advertising group to rival the Saatchis , with two giant American takeovers in 1987 and 1989 .
16 In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months .
17 He went on to give an account of his education at Eton School and then at King 's College , Cambridge ‘ of which society I am at present a Fellow and from which University I have derived my medical Honors ’ .
18 He went on to have an affair with a gypsy girl .
19 For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 .
20 Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer .
21 He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth .
22 He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth .
23 She was studying at the Royal College of Music when she moved into Coleherne Court with Diana , and then went on to become an opera singer , pausing only recently to have a couple of children .
24 She went on to win an Oscar for Roman Holiday and charmed cinema-goers with films like Funny Face and My Fair Lady .
25 Edward had gone off to see an editor at the BBC ; he wanted to talk about a project on the Third World , and the boy was at school .
26 ‘ In my day we went out to break an opponent 's concentration — not his leg .
27 I refuelled and re-armed and went back to keep an eye on Thacker who was about three miles out in the channel .
28 These are the data which tell the planner how to go about accumulating an audience , and what is needed to achieve given levels of reach and frequency ( see page 109 ) .
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