Example sentences of "went on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Greig went on to a century but West Indies won the match . |
2 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
3 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
4 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
5 | After a plaisent meal aboard the Britannia , we went on to a casino where we met Sonja , a gypsy from Montana . |
6 | Despite calls of if Rentokil won , Rank would terminate the contract , Rentokil went on to a 7-O victory . |
7 | Her thoughts were definitely not with her companions , and after a while they dropped her back at her flat and went on to a club together . |
8 | Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick . |
9 | Two Asian students Perveen Akraman and Shanaz Anwar began by improving their language skills , then went on to a beauty care course for women and recently they both enrolled on a car maintenance course . |
10 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
11 | ‘ The roof restoration began in 1982 and we then went on to the rest of the building repainting emblems throughout the length of the station , ’ he said . |
12 | After the service the congregation went on to the School , where the new rooms were formally declared open by Major T.C. Toler , Chairman of the Cheshire County Council . |
13 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
14 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
15 | He went on to the barn , where the farm workers had already finished eating and started dancing . |
16 | The loss of his favourite local was quite enough punishment to this patriot so ‘ Found in the coal yard ’ went on to the documents . |
17 | He then went on to the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) on Dec. 23-24 , Kuwait on Dec. 24-26 and Oman on Dec. 26-28 . |
18 | The Parrishes went on to the Palais de Justice to meet the woman examining magistrate who is in charge of the murder investigation . |
19 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
20 | At once Frau Nordern went on to the attack . |
21 | She flinched , then immediately went on to the attack . |
22 | He picked it up in an hour or two and went on to the guitar . |
23 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
24 | the binder was a great help you see it was on a a a Had the cutting and then it went on to the platform and the it went up |
25 | He then went on to the University of Leipzig where he stayed for four years , except for an interlude in Berlin of eighteen months . |
26 | ‘ You told me , Hugh , what the priest 's man of Upton said , how he parted from Aldhelm at Preston , while Aldhelm went on to the ferry . ’ |
27 | Putting her glass on the bar , she went on to the dance floor with him . |
28 | You went in to get the package while Ibrahim went on to the river — was that it ? ’ |
29 | We went on to the villa which had been requisitioned for the Bologna branch of the Allied Screening Commission : like all the villas requisitioned by Germans and members of the Allied forces alike , it was far too splendid for the purpose to which they put it . |
30 | She went on to the balcony , pulling on her silk kimono against the cold night . |