Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 2 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 3 | ‘ The roof restoration began in 1982 and we then went on to the rest of the building repainting emblems throughout the length of the station , ’ he said . |
| 4 | After the service the congregation went on to the School , where the new rooms were formally declared open by Major T.C. Toler , Chairman of the Cheshire County Council . |
| 5 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 6 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 7 | He went on to the barn , where the farm workers had already finished eating and started dancing . |
| 8 | The loss of his favourite local was quite enough punishment to this patriot so ‘ Found in the coal yard ’ went on to the documents . |
| 9 | He then went on to the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) on Dec. 23-24 , Kuwait on Dec. 24-26 and Oman on Dec. 26-28 . |
| 10 | The Parrishes went on to the Palais de Justice to meet the woman examining magistrate who is in charge of the murder investigation . |
| 11 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 12 | At once Frau Nordern went on to the attack . |
| 13 | She flinched , then immediately went on to the attack . |
| 14 | He picked it up in an hour or two and went on to the guitar . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | the binder was a great help you see it was on a a a Had the cutting and then it went on to the platform and the it went up |
| 17 | He then went on to the University of Leipzig where he stayed for four years , except for an interlude in Berlin of eighteen months . |
| 18 | ‘ You told me , Hugh , what the priest 's man of Upton said , how he parted from Aldhelm at Preston , while Aldhelm went on to the ferry . ’ |
| 19 | Putting her glass on the bar , she went on to the dance floor with him . |
| 20 | You went in to get the package while Ibrahim went on to the river — was that it ? ’ |
| 21 | We went on to the villa which had been requisitioned for the Bologna branch of the Allied Screening Commission : like all the villas requisitioned by Germans and members of the Allied forces alike , it was far too splendid for the purpose to which they put it . |
| 22 | She went on to the balcony , pulling on her silk kimono against the cold night . |
| 23 | She picked her way over the scattered things and went on to the balcony . |
| 24 | But er of course I gave up that and went er when I went on to the council . |
| 25 | So I went on to the Home Office ; they 've got two employees with the name , but one 's a woman and she 's off having a baby . |
| 26 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 27 | Ninety three members and friends then went on to the Headlands Hotel for a celebration dinner where all the ladies received a white carnation . |
| 28 | We went on to the target , all the same , and we not only bombed , but obtained a photograph of the aiming point at the moment of bombing . |
| 29 | She thought the remark was odd but before she had a chance to query it the attendant 's phone rang and as he disappeared Rachel went on to the changing-rooms . |
| 30 | Mowbray went on to the parapet walk . |