Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He achieved a First in his preliminary examination at Trinity College , Cambridge and went on to also get a First in the History Tripos Part 1 . |
| 2 | She went on to officially hand it over to OXRAD , the disabled sailing group based at Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford . |
| 3 | He went on to briefly visit the memorial to the 21 who died outside the vast shipyards where Lech Walesa , now the country 's president , made his name as head of Solidarity . |
| 4 | As that generation went on to personally more attractive or socially more distinguished occupations , the assembly lines there reached out to more distant refugees from poor farming and mining areas and to the erstwhile sharecroppers and other deprived rural workers of the Deep South . |
| 5 | Those from professional and managerial backgrounds benefited most from education and went on to more extended training with a ‘ long term career ’ orientation . |
| 6 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , it did , went on for up to the time I retired . |
| 8 | The attack went on for up to five minutes before the two attackers made off on foot . |
| 9 | This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the negotiations between the three publishers jostling for position went on for over a year without reaching a conclusion : ‘ It was very difficult to find common ground and make sure that everyone had their fair share . ’ |
| 11 | The war went on for over a thousand years . |
| 12 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 13 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 14 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 15 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 16 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 17 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 18 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 19 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 20 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |
| 21 | I think it was probably a ring , that sort of like went on for about a minute or so , |
| 22 | departure indeed from last year where the official parade went on for around 2 hours and there was really very little hint of even a bit of descent . |
| 23 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 24 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 25 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 26 | And if I 'm a wicked , evil news reporter , I 'm going to leave out all the nice , positive things that you said , because you went on for so long I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for the one o'clock news . |
| 27 | That went on for quite a long time |
| 28 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 29 | This went on for quite a while before it spoke again . |
| 30 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |