Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief .
2 Greig went on to a century but West Indies won the match .
3 Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick .
4 Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 .
5 Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 .
6 After a midweek game in London , the cousins went on to a two-day binge .
7 Prior to the installation of the new technology the biscuits , after being wrapped , went on to a ‘ checkweighing ’ device .
8 Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety .
9 He then went on to a pre-foundation course , then the intermediate course at Sutton Art School , followed by two years at Wimbledon Art School .
10 He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’
11 I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand .
12 He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’
13 ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party .
14 She went on to a safer subject .
15 But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it .
16 After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women .
17 Despite calls of if Rentokil won , Rank would terminate the contract , Rentokil went on to a 7-O victory .
18 After a plaisent meal aboard the Britannia , we went on to a casino where we met Sonja , a gypsy from Montana .
19 Her thoughts were definitely not with her companions , and after a while they dropped her back at her flat and went on to a club together .
20 Two Asian students Perveen Akraman and Shanaz Anwar began by improving their language skills , then went on to a beauty care course for women and recently they both enrolled on a car maintenance course .
21 The jockey went on to a second success for Playing Truant 's trainer David Gandolfo , partnering Ballyroe Lady to victory in the Tattersalls Mares Only Novices ' Chase .
22 However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ?
23 And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes .
24 The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound .
25 Quinn 's voice went on without a pause .
26 I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch .
27 He crossed the track on his belly and went on up a further hundred yards before starting his circle .
28 The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel .
29 Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena .
30 So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief .
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