Example sentences of "went on [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result they went on to argue for sole custody in step-parent situations on the assumption of children having one ‘ psychological parent ’ with whom they maintain a continuous relationship and bond . |
| 2 | We went on passing through first one room , then a second , a third , a fourth , in each one of which was a television set … |
| 3 | Andreeva went on to complain of historical plays , such as those of Mikhail Shatrov , which were arbitrary in their interpretation and close to the views that had been put forward by Lenin 's opponents , and she deplored the obsessive interest in Stalin among many writers , obscuring the fact that his was a complex and transitional period in which industrialisation , collectivisation and a cultural revolution had brought the USSR into the ranks of the great powers . |
| 4 | A second or two later , however , Fabia was turning her concentration to her plate , and giving herself something of a silent talking-to — her theme being that Ven would think he was lunching with some deranged lunatic if she went on grinning like that at him all through the meal . |
| 5 | The retiring Chairman , June Bascombe , then went on to enlarge on these past events and issues an the Hon. Treasurer , Joan Daniels , presented her report with great lucidity . |
| 6 | If the weather went on deteriorating at this rate there 'd be plenty of the latter around Gullholm . |
| 7 | The faithful went on believing despite all rational argument . |
| 8 | The trial judge later went on to deal with other and more serious injury : amongst other things he mentioned the question of arthritic changes . |
| 9 | In a short series of talks entitled Let the Figures Speak , I meditated on the Three Gems , the Four Truths , the Five Great Precepts , the Eightfold Path , and then went on to deal with some of the statistics of Burmese life — birth figures , infant mortality , crime figures , etc . |
| 10 | Although these depended for their success on voluntary support , the Association went on to lobby for new towns sponsored by the State . |
| 11 | I looked up the subject , Justice , in the new dictionary , and it said , To Treat Justly , or to Treat Fairly , and then it went on to talk about legal justice . |
| 12 | In the absence of any relevant authority he went on to hold for two reasons that B could not be required , after he had been cautioned and charged , to furnish the information . |
| 13 | The first lady nodded and went on nodding for several seconds in quiet contemplation before putting two further questions to him concerning European regional incentives , Government grants and subsidies and their cost distorting influence on investment location decisions . |
| 14 | Logie , on 10 , was dropped at slip and went on to put on 130 for the sixth wicket with Dujon , a crucial stand in view of the end result . |
| 15 | However , the initiative was welcomed by Jordan , Yemen and the PLO and went on to serve as one of the main diplomatic planks of the pro-Iraqi Arab bloc . |
| 16 | Turning to Spitfire : The History , published by Key Publishing , I find that BM240 was named Clifton Cameras and was first issued to 452 ( RAAF ) Squadron in March 1942 and went on to serve with 602 ( City of Glasgow ) Squadron , 416 ( RCAF ) Squadron , 350 Squadron and finally with 65 Squadron . |
| 17 | It went on to warn against any general attack on fiscal incentives ( or , as ICAS says the report negatively and unhelpfully refers to them , ‘ fiscal degradation ’ ) : there is no level playing field in the EC and so less successful economies have to offer incentives to compete , ICAS said , and any attempt to eliminate them would only lead to governments using non-tax ones which will be harder for others to identify . |
| 18 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 19 | The brothers went on to operate as secret agents in the Republic of Ireland under cover of a company called Whizz Kids , which supposedly specialised in women 's hot pants . |
| 20 | It went on to prognosticate with some insight but little charity about his political future . |
| 21 | We then went on to look at several classes of er ion channels , voltage gated channels which form a superfamily of sodium and calcium and potassium channels . |
| 22 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |
| 23 | For to the very last absurd minute , the combatants went on shooting at each other , as if they could not resist one last battle , as if the front line and the war had become inseparable from their own lives . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the court went on to discuss in some detail what the position would have been if the appeal could properly have been entertained , expressing the opinion that ( i ) ( Silke V.-P. differing ) there was no ground to intervene in the Barclays ( Asia ) case ; and ( ii ) ( all members of the court concurring ) there was no ground to intervene as regards the order in which the cases should be decided . |
| 25 | He looked up angrily before he went on talking to old Taylor , the gardener . |
| 26 | She went on talking about roast beef . |
| 27 | Patsy Gallacher went on to play for Celtic for 15 years and scored the winning goal in their famous cup-winning side of 1925 , when he beat the entire Dundee defence and somersaulted into the net with the ball between his feet . |
| 28 | He went on to play in all 42 League games that season and helped the club to finish in a respectable third position but , statistically at least , his best season with the Palace was 1920–21 when , along with all the other Southern League clubs , we were admitted to the Football League — and promptly won the newly-formed 3rd Division at the first time of asking ! |
| 29 | Charlie completely blotted the great man out of the match and , with this vital piece of their armoury missing , Tottenham were nonplussed and the Palace went on to win with two goals scored by Billy Morgan , who had joined the club as part of the same complex deal as Cross himself in 1922 . |
| 30 | Having regained his edge Dunlop turned up the wick again , and went on to win by four seconds from Perugini with Gianluigi Scalvini third . |