Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 32 | About 80 per cent of officials in these ministries survived the US purge and went on to cooperate with the Occupation in containing the labour movement into ‘ sound ’ de-politicized unions . |
| 33 | After loudly supporting an often-uncomfortable Jackson campaign again in the primary , Fulani went on to run on the NAP ticket , winning 240,000 votes in the general election — a considerable performance for a minor party . |
| 34 | Well , I remember Strawberry Alarm Clock , a bunch of psychedelic nutters from Santa Barbara , who had a massive hit with ‘ Incense and Peppermint ’ in 1967 and then went on to appear in the Psych-Out movie . |
| 35 | Having touched on the difficulties of the past year Mr Vernon went on to look at the remarkable successes : |
| 36 | The photograph was taken in 1987 and shows and up and coming local athlete who went on to compete in the Olympic Games . |
| 37 | After a tour of operations with the famous John Cats Eyes Cunningham , the Author went on to fly with the Fighter Interception Unit and was the Author of our Operational Flying Club series in the April , May and June 1992 issues . |
| 38 | He put one hand out ; she put out hers and gripped his forearm , looked up briefly and made a noise which might have been " thanks " , and went on working at the strap of her shoe . |
| 39 | He did not look up as Harry approached , but went on working with the zeal and single-mindedness of one who is totally absorbed . |
| 40 | With the dropping of 11 days , the old March 25 became April 5 , and tax collectors went on working from the old day with its new date . |
| 41 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |
| 42 | The population nevertheless went on increasing until the decennial census of 1851 , when it reached a peak of about 424,000 . |
| 43 | The first recipient of the original scholarship was Norcross Burrowes in 1880 , who went on to graduate from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1884 . |
| 44 | We went on to fight alongside the North African people for their independence . |
| 45 | The new " scottish National Institute " did however refer in its prospectus to the NAPSS meeting , and went on to speak of the " surplus female population " which required " fresh fields for the employment of their energies " . |
| 46 | The cutting went on to quote from the review , which had certainly been unusually savage : ‘ puerile nonsense ’ and ‘ unmitigated twaddle ’ were two of the phrases Sykes had used . |
| 47 | The report went on to comment on the absence of objective criteria for setting health priorities and to emphasise the need for health service research to be multidisciplinary . |
| 48 | Fists went on hammering on the door . |
| 49 | She went on to work for the Friends ' Committee in France , Austria , Poland , and Greece . |
| 50 | McIlvanney went on to work on the Scotsman as a news reporter and feature writer , though with his passion for football and boxing , the attraction towards sports was inevitable . |
| 51 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 52 | Peter Morgan had no complaints , however , and went on to work in the hotels and restaurants of the Lyons empire . |
| 53 | He was a good mathematical teacher and he wrote a number of text-books , some of which went on selling into the 198os . |
| 54 | But Miss Banks-Smith went on to worry about the effects of such overwhelming attention : ‘ You wonder with something like guilt whether television was good for her . |
| 55 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 56 | He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory . |
| 57 | and went on pouring in the horrible growing |
| 58 | she did she went on talking through the letter box to them |
| 59 | A good-natured sandy-haired man , he welcomed me into his car with a smile , and then went on talking to the family sitting in the back , a young couple with a baby . |
| 60 | He leaned his great bronzed forehead on his hand , turning his face gratefully to the cool of the night air , and went on talking in the soft , absorbed voice of one alone with his own spirit . |