Example sentences of "went [adv prt] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a small but forceful creature who survived the untimely death of the man who manipulated him so brilliantly and went on to forge an equally close bond with a second partner . |
| 2 | Buying a small Kent engineering company , Wire & Plastic Products , ( WPP ) he went on to create an advertising group to rival the Saatchis , with two giant American takeovers in 1987 and 1989 . |
| 3 | Fairbrother went on to hit an unbeaten 64 and Lancashire roared to their third Benson & Hedges Cup Final in four years as Wasim Akram destroyed Leicestershire . |
| 4 | In a prospective study of general practice prescribing involving more than 40 000 people over a 2-year period , Skegg et al. ( 1983 ) found that only three in a thousand of those who had received psychotropics went on to take an overdose of the drugs within the following 12 months . |
| 5 | The Yankees went on to assemble an unequalled record of 22 World Series victories ; generations of Sox fans have not a single one to cherish . |
| 6 | He still went on to do an enormous lob over Coton 's head , and what seemed like half an hour later the ball sneaked itself over the line . |
| 7 | Mr Calfa went on to outline an economic programme which would be operational until free elections can be held . |
| 8 | Reshevsky went on to lose an interzonal play-off for the World Championship in 1964 and was beaten again in the quarter-finals four years later . |
| 9 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 10 | He went on to give an account of his education at Eton School and then at King 's College , Cambridge ‘ of which society I am at present a Fellow and from which University I have derived my medical Honors ’ . |
| 11 | Gorbachev went on to give an emphatic answer in his keynote address to calls heard from both ends of the political spectrum for his resignation not just from the party leadership , but also from the presidency . |
| 12 | ‘ In the House of Lords he went on to make an outstanding contribution on Labour 's front-bench . |
| 13 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 14 | Canon Tydeman went on to offer an alternative interpretation of JAH-BUL-ON . |
| 15 | The PWA went on to achieve an impressive record in building schools , civic buildings and hospitals , but more rapid and extensive programmes of public works were required to provide relief for the millions who remained unemployed . |
| 16 | He went on to have an affair with a gypsy girl . |
| 17 | Undeterred , Simpson went on to produce an ‘ alternative ’ scheme , which , thanks to the Prince 's involvement in bringing the whole issue into the open , went on public display alongside models of all the official proposals in the crypt of St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 18 | For example , in the 1946 birth cohort , women who had their first child at age 15–19 went on to produce an average of 2.8 by age 36 , compared to 1.9 children in all for mothers who had their first child between ages 28–30 . |
| 19 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 20 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 21 | Mr Ashwell went on to present an inscribed plate as a token of gratitude to the hosts of the ceremony — the Hotel Management School at Leeuwarden . |
| 22 | She was studying at the Royal College of Music when she moved into Coleherne Court with Diana , and then went on to become an opera singer , pausing only recently to have a couple of children . |
| 23 | He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth . |
| 24 | These were collected by a stonemason , Hugh Miller ( 1802–56 ) , who became accepted as an authority on the subject and went on to become an outspoken critic of evolutionism . |
| 25 | He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth . |
| 26 | She went on to win an Oscar for Roman Holiday and charmed cinema-goers with films like Funny Face and My Fair Lady . |
| 27 | Australia went on to win an exciting Test with Simpson ( 89 ) and Thomson the batsman ( 41 not out ) helping to set India 340 to win in the fourth innings . |
| 28 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | Then I went in to face an English Corporal of ten years ' service , who had a bad reputation . |
| 30 | ‘ In my day we went out to break an opponent 's concentration — not his leg . |