Example sentences of "went [adv] to [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 | I went along to other organizations , joined one or two things , went out a lot . |
| 13 | And er when I went along to certain banks , they were asking as much as ninety seven pence a transaction . |
| 14 | The one on the right went only to sealed-off sections of corridor on each floor , where any interlopers who had managed to get that far would be fobbed off with further charades designed to conceal the true function of the building . |
| 15 | Roy Poynter and Derek Seager both won one , but went down to unbeaten Dave Stenning . |
| 16 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 17 | Despite being buoyed by the attendance of a West German delegation mandated to support the establishment of a supranational federal authority , the federalist argument went down to decisive defeat . |
| 18 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 19 | As Heath went down to electoral defeat in February 1974 , the yellowing of the 1970 Reorganisation of Central Government White Paper was the last thing on people 's mind . |
| 20 | Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter . |
| 21 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 22 | They saw fewer Satyajit Ray films now , and went less to Indian restaurants ; Eva gave up learning Urdu and listening to sitar music at breakfast . |
| 23 | The Fitzgerald family went together to early Mass and as they walked home everything seemed normal . |
| 24 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |
| 25 | In a bid to bring in larger audiences its name was changed to the Palace of Varieties and it went over to non-stop vaudeville and variety for three years . |
| 26 | Then , just before that gig , I went over to Central School of Art in Holborn and swung us another gig there . |
| 27 | ( All Mongolian-Soviet trade went over to hard currency and world prices from January 1991 , following talks in November 1990 . ) |
| 28 | Every penny of that money went directly to various charities within our own region . |
| 29 | And here troops would arrive to quell local disturbances and uprisings , while local organizers of the Anti-Corn Law League and early unions went off to national gatherings . |
| 30 | Oh Sunday it was really bad cos he had these people turn up for lunch and erm , said it 's Sam arranged to come and collect him quarter to six and then we went up to Fore Gate for lunch and then we came back here and had erm we were all standing in the kitchen here , knock on the door , a walked in , I 'd completely forgotten about it |