Example sentences of "go [adv prt] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's hope he goes on to greater things . |
| 2 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
| 3 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 4 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 5 | We have brought pride back to Teesside and we want to go on to greater things . ’ |
| 6 | We used to go along to various churches in the area playing music . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The elaborate leaving cards prepared for colleagues going on to new jobs or retiring are a remarkable testimony to the good humour of advertising people who see the comedy in the serious daily " grind " of their work . |
| 9 | As for the staff , they 're going on to new jobs . |
| 10 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 11 | By 1939 , nearly 80 per cent of pupils going on to secondary schools came from public elementary schools and the balance from private schools of various kinds . |
| 12 | ‘ Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds . ’ |
| 13 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 14 | Going over to some friends in Stockwood . |
| 15 | Look at all the erm cars going up to those houses up there look ! |
| 16 | With Kuwait 's refinery capacity going up to 664,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 1986 , KPC 's policy is to look for further outlets . |
| 17 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |
| 18 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 19 | P.B. They might have changed their tune , they might have changed their job description , but the job description was she was going out to primary schools . |
| 20 | We 're going out to seventy miles . |
| 21 | Those who had time also diligently collected their most important legal documents — the deeds of ownership to property , the maps of their orange groves and fields , their tax returns and their identity papers going back to Ottoman times — and packed them into bags and tins along with family heirlooms and jewellery and their front door keys . |
| 22 | There is an even older architectural tradition , going back to Roman times . |
| 23 | " Yes , oysters — going back to Roman times . |
| 24 | If this involves going back to first principles , then however removed they may be from our present experience , we have a responsibility to go back . |
| 25 | He first demonstrated his taste for going back to first principles as a student at Brown University in the late 1960s . |
| 26 | In the current era of food surpluses , efforts are being made to reduce production , both by political manoeuvre ( e.g. set aside and diversification ) and a return to sustainable systems of agriculture which are perceived as going back to traditional methods . |
| 27 | She said she had not heard that British scientists wanted to return him to Arctic waters , but warned that going back to cold temperatures , coupled with the need to hunt for food again , would be fatal . |
| 28 | Where the arable trail demonstrates how conservation and modern farming techniques can flourish side by side , Cow Wood , with a history going back to medieval times , emphasises the environmental importance of well-managed woodland and is a logical extension of the Bovingdon Hall concept . |
| 29 | I think how you do it is very is a very different matter , particularly when you still have very many schools , for example , who erm take the registers — going back to basic things . |
| 30 | ‘ It is a place for Freikultur , not what you call nudism but … a liberation of the body , a going back to natural things … |