Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 32 | I drifted off into non-league and he went on to big things at West Ham . |
| 33 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
| 34 | Prabhakar went on to 64 , but McDermott worked his way through the tail , finishing with 10 wickets in the match : his final scalp ( Srinath ) was his 150th in Tests . |
| 35 | Despite his most terrible threats , he could extract nothing about what went on during those eight days . " |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | All the cooking , eating , living went on under this vaulted ceiling with its skylights , around this central fireplace , on this limestone floor knuckled with the imprints of fossils . |
| 38 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 39 | The battles went on for four days that August and at least thirty-four people were killed . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Virginia had no property qualifications to limit men 's right to vote until 1670 , and this was a little more like the usual arrangements in a company , where all shareholders were able to vote , than the position in parliamentary elections , where property qualifications for voting went on for hundreds of years to come . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 46 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 47 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | So it went on for two long hours during which the thousands present learned nothing about Fascism except the bravery and pertinacity of its young adherents in dealing with this very perilous situation . " |
| 50 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 51 | And that went on for two or three weeks you know , and I said to the the station master at when he came across on his once a week visits he would come across . |
| 52 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 53 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 54 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 55 | The wheat went on for thousands of miles , looking just the same everywhere . |
| 56 | This went on for some time , but when it was finished , the daughter started crying again , this time tears of remorse , grieving for the mother who had died , and grieving for the relationship that she had never had . |
| 57 | This movement , which went on for some time , gave Franca ( and Ludens agreed with her later ) the sense that Marcus was actually creating Patrick . |
| 58 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 59 | This went on for some time , until the dog 's master came to the door . |
| 60 | Then began a remarkable conversation which went on for some time ; it was getting on for five when she left . |