Example sentences of "went on [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilbey went on to date Alethea Savile , the 29-year-old daughter of the Earl of Mexborough . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He went on to University College London , where he graduated B.Sc. |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | The records show that Robert Noel Waddington Oakeshott , adviser to the Zambian Government , went on to poll 3,891 votes . |
| 9 | The other went on to film school and a career in the movie business . |
| 10 | Sir Maitland , son of an Aberdeenshire tenant farmer went on to farm extensively himself and become Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | He stayed in the theatre , went on to television and the movies and became James Bond . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Taki went on to flesh out his old friend . |
| 16 | The Ellerman & Bucknall ladies team won their heat and then went on to victory in the final . |
| 17 | Seen here at age 3 , this proud son of Durham went on to captain England at cricket — and rugby football . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Course they went on to grammar school as 't was in they days . |
| 20 | He went on to discourse at length on the nature of fat . |
| 21 | They then went on to pool ideas on strategies for generating mathematical enquiry in the classroom . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Thank you , ’ Robbie began , but he went on without pause . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field . |
| 27 | Life went on at home much as it had done for years . |
| 28 | God knows what went on at night . |
| 29 | I do n't think it 's a boat for people like the one we went on at school . |
| 30 | Having seen some of what went on with secondary picketing in the 1970s , I regard it as the unacceptable face of socialism . |