Example sentences of "he go [adv] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 2 | He compares war in modern circumstances with a plague , and tries to make us see that we have exactly the same universal common interest in transcending military conflict that we have in getting plague under control , and that it 's necessary to use all our intelligence and imagination to break the millennial connection of intersocial change with war , and then he goes on to make practical proposals . |
| 3 | To frighten off these visions , and because further sleep was out of the question , he went downstairs to make some tea . |
| 4 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 5 | He went on to make the Queen 's wedding dress in 1947 and her Coronation gown in 1953 . |
| 6 | He went on to make 142 , his highest Test score , before perishing to a cheeky reverse sweep against the persistent Patel |
| 7 | Before the end of the year he went on to make P. P. Gagarin head of the Department of Laws of the State Council . |
| 8 | ‘ In the House of Lords he went on to make an outstanding contribution on Labour 's front-bench . |