Example sentences of "went on [prep] a [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 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
12 | Quinn 's voice went on without a pause . |
13 | The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound . |
14 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
15 | Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ . |
16 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
17 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
18 | The kettle went on for a lunchtime brew-up before we tackled the group of small , uninhabited islands which lie west of Whalsay : Nacka Skerry , Nista , Mooa , Isbister Holm ( the only place in Shetland where sea-aster grows ) , East Linga and Grif Skerry . |
19 | shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that ! |
20 | Now that went on for a month . |
21 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
22 | The article went on with an account of Walter and Hilda 's early married life , against a background of dole and depression . |
23 | And he thrust her briskly into a small , book-lined room , and himself went on along a passage to the hall and the telephone , leaving the door open between them . |
24 | Secret talks with the government , which went on over a period of more than a year , were also broken off . |
25 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
26 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
27 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
28 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
29 | This was not wildly different , I suppose , to what went on in a book I was reading , Edmund Gosse 's Father and Son , in which the father would pray before any crucial decision and await God 's direction . |
30 | ‘ You can buy me a bodystocking if you like , ’ Bryony went on after a pause . |