Example sentences of "went [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine , and still went on reading Jane Eyre . |
| 2 | Jack Hathorne was a former RAF pilot who went on to test fly Hurricane fighters being built at Brockworth during the second world war . |
| 3 | Following her success , went on to represent Suffolk in the National Finals at Skegness , narrowly losing in the semi-finals , by one shot . |
| 4 | Winners from last year 's northern finals went on to represent Britain in the first world championships in London . |
| 5 | After all , she worked on the nineteenth-century industrial novel for something like ten years , and even after publishing her book she went on accumulating ideas and insights about the subject . |
| 6 | For Wykeham he designed New College , Oxford , and supervised the works there from 1379 to 1386 , after which he went on to design Winchester College , ready for occupation in 1394 but not completed until after 1400 . |
| 7 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 8 | He then went on to open Deakin Electrical Supplies ' new premises in Old Colwyn , where he stressed the importance of established companies growing and the need for inward investment . |
| 9 | Most of the cash went on redesigning logic devices , For instance , engineers installed circuits to filter out noise from mains supplies ; twist-wire cables are specified for data highways . |
| 10 | ‘ Almost due north of Koraloona is Hodges Island , named after the painter who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage , then went on to paint India for Warren Hastings . |
| 11 | Chris Nicholl who played for Villa and then went on to manage Southampton and Terry Venables … who knows he may even try to buy the club lock stock and barrel … |
| 12 | The other change which took place was the growth of a minority who went on to take advantage of new opportunities to get a university degree . |
| 13 | She gained the best School Certificate results at her school in Norfolk and went on to take science subjects for Higher Certificate . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 15 | It went on to describe Tracey 's confrontation with the unfortunate man , and his subsequent disappearance , presumably over the border into East Germany . |
| 16 | He went on to score tries in two of the three Tests when Great Britain beat New Zealand in the 1989 series . |
| 17 | He loyally went on to call Mr Kinnock happy , open , generous , and possessed of a thing you might not suspect , timing … |
| 18 | He breezed through the ‘ school cert ’ ( which he had to take in UCS 's cellars because of the air raids ) got a First and a doctorate at Imperial then went on to research posts here and in America . |
| 19 | On Jan. 23 Deng went on to visit Shuhai , another SEZ . |
| 20 | After leaving Harbin Shevardnadze went on to visit North Korea and Japan . |
| 21 | Beginning his tour in Uzbekistan on April 27 he went on to visit Kirgizstan , Kazakhstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan [ for December 1991 Turkish recognition of Central Asian independence see p. 38657 ] . |
| 22 | Nkrumah also made an African tour , in which he built up his relationship with president Nasser , and went on to visit Nehru in India . |
| 23 | Demirel went on to visit Azerbaijan . |
| 24 | Raúl Castro , having worked closely with PSP members at the university during 1952 , attended the Communist-sponsored Fourth World Youth Congress in Vienna in February 1953 and went on to visit Bucharest , Budapest and Prague . |
| 25 | He just nodded and smiled and went on chewing Chicken Thallium , slowly and methodically Henry tried to think of a remark that would go with an expansive gesture . |
| 26 | Miliutin went on writing memoranda after the war had come to an end . |
| 27 | And we went on writing poems , in that luxuriant air of mingled spirituality and sexual anguish . |
| 28 | Fleming went on using mould extracts in selective media , and published once more on the subject before 1942 . |
| 29 | Petrakis went on to urge men to remember ‘ that a woman is a human being with feelings too , not just a cosy hole ’ . |
| 30 | The Chairman then thanked Hilda Lodge , who , although retiring as Vice-Chairman , was continuing to serve as Chairman of the Publicity Committee and introduced Joan Daniels the new Vice-Chairman ; she then went on to thank Kay Maskell and Jean Parmiter the retiring Chairmen of the Finance and Training Sub-Committees . |