Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage .
2 Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using .
3 I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run .
4 How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty .
5 But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears .
6 Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates .
7 She went on to the next cubicle , a simple fractured thumb that even Joe Reynolds had managed to diagnose and set without too much trouble .
8 Then you went on to the next thing you all done the same thing over and over again .
9 At sixteen , Coleby left school with two ‘ O ’ levels , while Peter went on to the sixth form .
10 And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship .
11 There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time .
12 Most , in both categories , left after taking the School Certificate ( if not sooner ) , but a trickle went on into the sixth form and even to the universities .
13 ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play .
14 Er , thank you , Mr Chairman , to me erm , this went on from the first paper that chose the effects of the food and management of the er , the fire local services , whereas carried through and it will be interesting to see next year er what the situation is , in order to the position of the as it were , this year , benefit of everything that has previous administration .
15 The war went on throughout the second half of 1 168 .
16 This went on until the sixteenth century when Henry VIII ordered his chief fruiterer , Richard Harris , to visit France and learn about apple cultivation .
17 The arguments over who he should drive for went on until the last minute when it was decided that Clark should make the fateful trip to Germany .
18 Then I saw an advert for a new consciousness-raising group in Spare Rib , and went along to the first meeting .
19 We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time .
20 When they 'd putted out he went down to the 7th tee .
21 She went down to the next floor and called Rosa Kenny .
22 He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill .
23 We 'd have a respite of about a fortnight if we were lucky before he went down with the next one .
24 More than 20 years since he started flying , he went solo for the first time .
25 At least 12 other women candidates went through to the second round of voting .
26 You know and it even went through to the next floor you know into the bedroom like .
27 Marshall 's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886 , but the building remains standing ( and occupied ) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire 's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century .
28 You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there .
29 She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since .
30 I went yesterday for the first time .
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