Example sentences of "went on [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , I am not sure that I was there on that night of his arrival , and I do n't claim to remember all the details or to have been as impressed by his appearance , framed in the doorway , as some people I drink with do ; I think they just want to talk about their witnessing his first appearance that way — as if he was an angel or something extraordinary — because of what went on to happen later . |
| 2 | She went on to design over 300 gardens , some in continental Europe and America , often to accompany house plans sent by Lutyens . |
| 3 | Hamish , and others , went on to design equally strong , but lighter , axes . |
| 4 | ‘ Can you do something for me ? ’ she asked without preamble , and went on to explain quickly what it was she wanted done . |
| 5 | Taking a deep breath , Sara went on to explain how huge the Femidom is . |
| 6 | Templeton went on to explain how employing women played havoc with this arrangement : When the females get their work to set up , the whole of what we term the " fat " is taken out , that is all the space is taken out and they simply get close matter to set , and they get paid for that . |
| 7 | Kelly told him and then went on to fill in the details — Broom-Parker , seeing Ibn Fayoud with Jack Butler in the car park at Kempton racecourse , her conversation with Harry Short . |
| 8 | She then went on to point out that several pieces of silver had been laid out for the dining room which bore clear remains of polish . |
| 9 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 10 | Adopting a paternal tone , however , Justinian went on to point out that in the case of bequests under conditions or uncertain terms it would also be best to refrain from alienation to avoid the possibility of grave expense arising from ensuing eviction . |
| 11 | It was no accident , therefore , that Bukharin went on to point out the real advances already made by the Soviet economy , particularly in industry , during the preceding period . |
| 12 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
| 13 | The report went on to point out that these goals were the same for all children , although some children will realise them ( all or in part ) at a much slower pace than others . |
| 14 | The CHC went on to point out that it had already carried out its own feasibility study on the potential for a psychiatric hospital closure in Redbridge and Waltham Forest . |
| 15 | Lord Tenterden C.J. went on to point out that the defendant in the first action would not have been relieved from having to contribute to the defendant in the second case if the latter had been compelled to pay a larger portion than his share . |
| 16 | He went on to point out ‘ the danger of getting the judiciary into politics ’ especially as newspapers were often linked to political parties . |
| 17 | A German captain , interviewed off Larak Island by a Times correspondent , acknowledged the risks involved but went on to point out that ‘ the money is good and the contract is only six months ’ . |
| 18 | Lord Reid went on to point out that this case was not of the type which would usually have been described as in restraint of trade ; there was for example no provision which prevented the plaintiff from working once the contract had run its course . |
| 19 | Then they went on to say why she . |
| 20 | In First Jobs of the Famous , he recalls making an elderly lady laugh as he was cutting her hair but went on to snip straight through her hearing aid . |
| 21 | That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today . |
| 22 | Interestingly , the teachers who did not use The Machine Gunners said things like , ‘ I like other books more ’ ( for example Conrad 's War and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe ) and went on to describe very positive pupil responses to these alternative titles . |
| 23 | Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion . |
| 24 | This man went on to describe how the entire lot had been dumped . |
| 25 | He went on to describe how Jean-Claude had starved himself , how much weight he had lost and in what condition were the nerves he wore on his sleeve . |
| 26 | Jenner 's stiff and stilted prose then went on to describe how the ‘ model ’ — the first of a number — had been allowed to recover before the serrated plates of a Kocher clamp had been placed around its tail . |
| 27 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 28 | On 28 December 1694 , vindicating her husband 's foresight in having himself made joint sovereign , Mary II died , but William III now went on to rule alone , with no dispute over the succession . |
| 29 | The Commission went on to rule out all the obvious options : supplementary insurance , charges , a hypothecated tax , local tax , and even a state lottery . |
| 30 | The label was still left with a vibrant mini-LP that débuted in the charts at number 22 and went on to sell nearly 30,000 , 6,000 of them in Israel . |