Example sentences of "went [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation . |
| 4 | ‘ The story tells how she left her body behind yet went on to other things , ’ says Deaconess Pat Phillips . |
| 5 | ‘ The story tells how he left his body behind yet went on to other things , ’ she said . |
| 6 | But Mr Rickman , who co-starred with Bruce Willis in the movie Die Hard , and went on to other leading screen roles including the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood , Prince of Thieves , is not appearing for superstar 's wages . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ That officer went on to great deeds . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So I went on to reciprocal for 10 minutes to seek a more friendly environment , which I did , and then set course again . |
| 11 | The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I drifted off into non-league and he went on to big things at West Ham . |
| 14 | I went along to other organizations , joined one or two things , went out a lot . |
| 15 | And er when I went along to certain banks , they were asking as much as ninety seven pence a transaction . |
| 16 | The one on the right went only to sealed-off sections of corridor on each floor , where any interlopers who had managed to get that far would be fobbed off with further charades designed to conceal the true function of the building . |
| 17 | Roy Poynter and Derek Seager both won one , but went down to unbeaten Dave Stenning . |
| 18 | I made sure I looked as if I 'd just got out of bed and dressed in a hurry — hence no socks and the sweatshirt — and went down to front garden to wave them in . |
| 19 | Despite being buoyed by the attendance of a West German delegation mandated to support the establishment of a supranational federal authority , the federalist argument went down to decisive defeat . |
| 20 | York is the main urban island in the county and Mr Conal Gregory 's 147vote hold on the city was effectively written off before the polling booths opened ; he went down to Labour by a thumping 6,342 . |
| 21 | If anyone doubts the dangers to an opposition party of a rush to judgment about what needs to be done after election defeat , they ought to dip into some of the memoirs of the 1959 period , the last time that Labour , while in opposition , hoped and expected they would win , but went down to serious defeat ( in that case , by 100 seats ) . |
| 22 | As Heath went down to electoral defeat in February 1974 , the yellowing of the 1970 Reorganisation of Central Government White Paper was the last thing on people 's mind . |
| 23 | Having chosen confrontation with the unions the Heath government went down to important defeats : the resolution of the miners ' strike by the Wilberforce Report in 1972 ; the official solicitor 's intervention to free the ‘ Pentonville Five ’ in the context of demands for a general strike , after which the Industrial Relations Act was virtually a dead letter . |
| 24 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 25 | They saw fewer Satyajit Ray films now , and went less to Indian restaurants ; Eva gave up learning Urdu and listening to sitar music at breakfast . |
| 26 | The Fitzgerald family went together to early Mass and as they walked home everything seemed normal . |
| 27 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |
| 28 | was administrative receiver and then it went over to Limited . |
| 29 | In a bid to bring in larger audiences its name was changed to the Palace of Varieties and it went over to non-stop vaudeville and variety for three years . |
| 30 | Then , just before that gig , I went over to Central School of Art in Holborn and swung us another gig there . |