Example sentences of "went [adv prt] to [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Rawlins went on to the most arduous part of the game — attempting to memorise the host of gifts on a conveyor belt , ranging from a cuddly toy to a microwave . |
| 2 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |
| 3 | Dorothy George , after describing the " roastbeef " of old England , retained her rose-coloured spectacles as she went on to an extraordinarily generous view of the Poor Law . |
| 4 | I went down to the straight away to the coal dealer and said , Take him a load of coal , and he took him . |
| 5 | I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year . |
| 6 | In fact , an explanation which went back to a biologically grounded disposition could in this case precisely avoid the invocation of rational collective agency , which is rather an intellectualist embarrassment to the story as Hume ( 1738–40 ) tells it . |
| 7 | After the war Attlee went back to the more responsible system . |