Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Lions went badly off course after compiling a 24–0 half-time lead against second division opposition and captain Gavin Hastings said : ‘ It was very frustrating .
2 IN her article on car recycling , Liz Moore claimed that in the Eighties , scapped cars went eventually to landfill sites .
3 Gilbey went on to date Alethea Savile , the 29-year-old daughter of the Earl of Mexborough .
4 Is he aware that , in the case of telecoms , the price control formula started at retail prices index minus 3 and went on to RPI minus 4.5 and only recently has been increased to RPI minus 6.25 ?
5 In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time .
6 Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university .
7 As Table 3.5 shows , the proportion of West Indian children that passed one or more A levels was at least six times lower than that of other children , while the proportion that went on to university was three times lower .
8 He went on to University College London , where he graduated B.Sc.
9 And tt Jan was er was er wondering during last year and went on to hormone replacement therapy because she was and the doctor was a bit concerned about possible osteoporosis which is erm brittle bone
10 The records show that Robert Noel Waddington Oakeshott , adviser to the Zambian Government , went on to poll 3,891 votes .
11 The other went on to film school and a career in the movie business .
12 Sir Maitland , son of an Aberdeenshire tenant farmer went on to farm extensively himself and become Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire .
13 The meeting closed with the presentation of floral arrangements to two Kent teachers , Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman who had both started Medau in the early 50's as members of Dr. Anni Noll 's post-natal class and having enjoyed that introduction Medau became a way of life and they both went on to quality as Medau teachers and have both taught continuously in the Kent area ever since .
14 Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics
15 He stayed in the theatre , went on to television and the movies and became James Bond .
16 Of the other family to benefit from the fall of the Winslades , the Trelawneys went on to fame and fortune , the most renowned member being Bishop Sir Jonathon Trelawney , one of the seven bishops imprisoned by James II and commemorated in Cornwall 's unofficial national anthem .
17 Taki went on to flesh out his old friend .
18 The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final .
19 Seen here at age 3 , this proud son of Durham went on to captain England at cricket — and rugby football .
20 By contrast , Jack Nicklaus made an eagle three and went on to birdie the next two holes , turning around a deficit of four shots to win the tournament .
21 ‘ Course they went on to grammar school as 't was in they days .
22 He went on to discourse at length on the nature of fat .
23 They then went on to pool ideas on strategies for generating mathematical enquiry in the classroom .
24 It means erm , specifically , wean the breast , so that the child accepts solid food or that 's what in general means erm , getting a child off baby food as it went on to adult food .
25 As her cheeks paled visibly , he went on without mercy , ‘ You may have succeeded in getting your greedy little hooks into my father and my brother , but you 're never going to get them into my sister .
26 ‘ Thank you , ’ Robbie began , but he went on without pause .
27 You will notice that this inference contains the built-in assumption that whatever went on on Earth is likely to have gone on elsewhere in the universe , and this begs the whole question .
28 The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field .
29 Life went on at home much as it had done for years .
30 God knows what went on at night .
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