Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers .
2 Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage .
3 ‘ The story tells how she left her body behind yet went on to other things , ’ says Deaconess Pat Phillips .
4 ‘ The story tells how he left his body behind yet went on to other things , ’ she said .
5 Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation .
6 ‘ That officer went on to great deeds .
7 Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud .
8 They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour .
9 ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star .
10 The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions .
11 I drifted off into non-league and he went on to big things at West Ham .
12 The next night I went on without Dutch courage and flattened a drunken heckler with a couple of speedy put-downs that came from nowhere ( 't was I , your valiant defence mechanism again ) and a new career was born .
13 He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed .
14 It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment .
15 So they went on with great difficulty .
16 After the 1987 election , the battle went on with new intensity .
17 One ‘ unofficial ’ source told me ‘ the club did nt mind what went on with young Ryan on away trips — after all they were roommates and what roommates do — well they do at this club anyway — but Sir Matt 's dog !
18 ‘ She and the other girl were obviously in league , ’ he went on with savage certainty .
19 From early surprise victories in the wild hills around Loch Trool , Bruce and his reinvigorated followers went on with growing confidence during the next seven years to capture one castle after another from the English .
20 He provided a sketch showing the exact stage dimensions , then went on with detailed instructions :
21 He went on about various things but I only half heard him .
22 But despite the death the rowing at Oxford went on as normal today. , with crews competing in the traditional college races .
23 This rethinking went on in episcopal households and monasteries as well as in some urban schools which survived in some areas well into the sixth century .
24 Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position .
25 When I think of what went on in eastern Europe , and in fascist Europe before the war , when I was younger , I am glad that we have a free press .
26 There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing .
27 This started at about midday and went on until late afternoon , when everyone was so full of food that they could hardly move .
28 They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage .
29 If we went along with retail display allowances only the richest publishers would benefit , ’ he said .
30 I went along to other organizations , joined one or two things , went out a lot .
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