Example sentences of "went on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few , like Cliff Michelmore , went on to bigger things . |
| 2 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 3 | In 1979 , only one young person in eight went on to higher education . |
| 4 | He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers . |
| 5 | Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage . |
| 6 | ‘ The story tells how she left her body behind yet went on to other things , ’ says Deaconess Pat Phillips . |
| 7 | ‘ The story tells how he left his body behind yet went on to other things , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation . |
| 9 | ‘ That officer went on to great deeds . |
| 10 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |
| 11 | But Irina Rodnina went on to ever-greater skating heights with new partner Alexander Zaitsev , whom she wed in 1975 . |
| 12 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 13 | From this small beginning , Mr. Shipsey went on to greater things for we used to hear of his progress after the monthly meetings of the Ancient Order of Foresters as both Dad and his friend were Past Chief Rangers . |
| 14 | But a fair number of them went on to greater things . |
| 15 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 16 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 18 | The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions . |
| 19 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 20 | I drifted off into non-league and he went on to big things at West Ham . |
| 21 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
| 22 | The next night I went on without Dutch courage and flattened a drunken heckler with a couple of speedy put-downs that came from nowhere ( 't was I , your valiant defence mechanism again ) and a new career was born . |
| 23 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 24 | However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site . |
| 25 | The battles went on for four days that August and at least thirty-four people were killed . |
| 26 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 27 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 28 | Though modern readers might wish to repay Mr Ruskin 's ‘ hard work ’ recorded in a 1854 entry , with hard labour , the practice of dismembering books went on for many centuries . |
| 29 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 30 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |