Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 2 | ‘ The response was so amazing , ’ Chris recalls , ‘ that we went on to exhibit in London and the business really took off . ’ |
| 3 | I informed Mrs X that this was absolute rubbish and went on to explain about safety precautions , such as protective clothing and inoculations . |
| 4 | He went on to refer to Rhodes ' phrase of ‘ government in the hands of civilised men ’ . |
| 5 | Born of parents who mixed three heritages between them African , Hispanic and Chinese he grew up in Cuba and subsequently went on to live in Spain , Italy , Mexico and the United States , stopping long enough in France in the late Thirties to be bouleversé by Surrealism , and by Picasso 's ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ in particular . |
| 6 | GEORDIE Glam-rock band who had four Top 40 hits in the early Seventies , Brian Johnson went on to sing with AC/DC . |
| 7 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 8 | Akram went on to perform in plays in English and Bengali . |
| 9 | And he went on to ask about Ruby 's visit that afternoon . |
| 10 | And yet it was when he went on to talk of systems that one felt that he was offering something innovative and new to modern day tennis thinking . |
| 11 | But more and more intellectuals seemed prepared to take this risk and went on to talk of Chaplin 's techniques , his ‘ dolefulness ’ , his sense of rhythm , and his mastery of myth and fancy . |
| 12 | She went on to talk to children in the refuge creche and to ask the helpers if they managed to leave work problems behind when they returned home in the evening — ‘ otherwise , it must get so depressing for you . ’ |
| 13 | King Hassan , the Maghreb 's sole reigning monarch , had issued a swift and strong condemnation of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and he went on to vote in favour of the resolution adopted at the Cairo summit . |
| 14 | I can drive a tractor , ’ he said , and went on to speculate at length on the possibilities of the English dole . |
| 15 | NX41964 was built as P-63E 43–11728 and went on to serve in Honduras . |
| 16 | After that arduous battle , which succeeded in breaking Italian resistance in Eritrea , Winchester went on to serve in Abyssinia and the Western Desert . |
| 17 | However , he went on to warn against complacency , as although most large companies are conscious of their health and safety responsibilities , an increase in the number of small companies and contractors may cause a corresponding increase in accident figures . |
| 18 | The convener went on to warn against funding schools on the basis of their pupil numbers . |
| 19 | Educated at a state school in Hampstead , he went on to study at Oxford University . |
| 20 | Technical border teams went on to meet in Vientiane in September , Beijing in November , Yunnan province ( China ) in January-February 1991 and Vientiane in August . |
| 21 | As a fourteen-year-old she had made her debut in a particularly sophisticated team , and went on to appear on Broadway . |
| 22 | He went on to campaign with Mr Tim Devlin , running in Stockton South and then moved to Hartlepool and Newcastle . |
| 23 | We went on to look at ligand gated channels , and in particular three different classes , acetylcholine gated , glycine gated , G A B A gated . |
| 24 | After visiting a garden festival in Ebbw Vale , Gwent , they went on to stay with Mr Tomlins ' parents in Milton Keynes , Bucks . |
| 25 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 26 | He explained about the garden wall and then went on to speak of Ballater 's visit . |
| 27 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 28 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 29 | The author , David Ottewill , qualified as an architect in the 1950s and went on to work for John Brandon-Jones . |
| 30 | He went on to work at Birmingham , Bristol and Luton , as he progressed to other jobs within the operations department . |