Example sentences of "went on [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on to 58 , putting on 154 with Lloyd , the captain batting beautifully for a century to take his team out of trouble . |
| 2 | Smith went on to 61 , the winning runs coming with 16.1 overs to spare . |
| 3 | Richards was missed when 5 and went on to 62 , the same score as Richardson , with all the batsmen making useful contributions . |
| 4 | It went on to nine before Thomas put an end to it . |
| 5 | Greenidge was dropped on 6 and made a further 74 , Kallicharran on 25 and went on to 42 , and King was unbeaten on 31 after giving a chance on 5. 215 was the kind of score to promise a close finish , and Boycott , Willey and Larkins saw them well on the way . |
| 6 | Well , 'e become top scorer o' centuries when 'e was 42 and went on to 197 of 'em before 'e retired at 51 . |
| 7 | Prabhakar went on to 64 , but McDermott worked his way through the tail , finishing with 10 wickets in the match : his final scalp ( Srinath ) was his 150th in Tests . |
| 8 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 9 | The battles went on for four days that August and at least thirty-four people were killed . |
| 10 | However , piling operations began almost simultaneously and Alan Muir , construction director of Muir Construction of Inverkeithing , the main contractor , said that though the earth-moving phase at the beginning of the contract went on for four weeks , the piling operation began almost as soon as the firm moved on to the site . |
| 11 | Virginia had no property qualifications to limit men 's right to vote until 1670 , and this was a little more like the usual arrangements in a company , where all shareholders were able to vote , than the position in parliamentary elections , where property qualifications for voting went on for hundreds of years to come . |
| 12 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 13 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 14 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 15 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |
| 16 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 17 | So it went on for two long hours during which the thousands present learned nothing about Fascism except the bravery and pertinacity of its young adherents in dealing with this very perilous situation . " |
| 18 | This went on for two weeks . |
| 19 | And that went on for two or three weeks you know , and I said to the the station master at when he came across on his once a week visits he would come across . |
| 20 | This went on for five whole days — |
| 21 | The wheat went on for thousands of miles , looking just the same everywhere . |
| 22 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |
| 23 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 24 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 25 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 26 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 27 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 28 | After pitching their tents , the travellers held a rave party that went on for 3 days and nights . |
| 29 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 30 | It was n't quite the kind of flying that went on in 1940 . |