Example sentences of "went on [prep] [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 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 5 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 6 | The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building . |