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

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1 In 1979 , only one young person in eight went on to higher education .
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 Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation .
4 But Irina Rodnina went on to ever-greater skating heights with new partner Alexander Zaitsev , whom she wed in 1975 .
5 While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy .
8 But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green .
9 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 .
10 It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while .
11 They went on for some way in silence .
12 This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had .
13 This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick .
14 This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door .
15 Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left .
16 It was a quite hard movement , dragging the flesh this way and that , and it went on for some time , perhaps ten minutes .
17 The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences .
18 This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms .
19 Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on .
20 This went on for some time , with Dr Neil fencing politely , Matey looking grim , and Norton sighing in counterpoint to la Darrell .
21 This went on for some time .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe .
25 He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari .
26 He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living .
27 So they went on with great difficulty .
28 After the 1987 election , the battle went on with new intensity .
29 ‘ She and the other girl were obviously in league , ’ he went on with savage certainty .
30 They went on with this banter as they drove down the hill and along the road to the beach .
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