Example sentences of "[pers pn] went ahead " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 2 | I went ahead and asked all the usual questions but I knew the answers already . |
| 3 | The enclosed pamphlet continues to flatter me , explaining that since nobody ever promised me a rose garden , I went ahead and grew my own . |
| 4 | In fact , since I had already made my holiday plans , I went ahead and paid my second visit to the railway , together with my wife and eldest daughter . |
| 5 | For example , you mentioned the need for public liability insurance , so I went ahead and arranged that ; I also had signs made saying ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ , as you recommended ; I took care to explain to the volunteers to avoid disturbing the kicking stones , and to avoid making heaps of spoil so as not to impede the grass cutter . |
| 6 | Assuming that I now had BWB approval in principle and a promise of funding , I went ahead and on 12 May called on our members for volunteers . |
| 7 | Accordingly I went ahead and circulated all potential volunteers with a call for the weekends of June 12-13 and June 19-20 , which at the time was two months away and I assumed this would allow enough time for SNH approval to come through . |
| 8 | You know I do n't like you to play games without me , but you went ahead regardless . |
| 9 | Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready . |
| 10 | Yes , surprising , it 's surprising how fa far you went ahead . |
| 11 | ‘ But why did n't you talk it over with your mother or your aunt before you went ahead with something quite so drastic ? ’ enquired Daphne on the twenty-sixth day . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't realise that animals were not supposed to have personalities , or to think or to feel emotions or pain , ’ she recalls — which is just as well , since she went ahead and recorded what she observed , instead of what she was supposed to observe . |
| 13 | She went ahead of Agnes out of the cubicle and pointed . |
| 14 | She went ahead of him into the living room . |
| 15 | Without looking at either of them , she went ahead . |
| 16 | She went ahead of him up the narrow stairs , which twisted round . |
| 17 | Ulster Unionist Jim Rodgers who has visited President Robinson in Dublin , said he had several times tried to dissuade her advisers from allowing the meeting with the Sinn Fein leader , and was ‘ angry and disappointed ’ that she went ahead . |
| 18 | We 'd have a full scale fight on our hands with those guys if we went ahead with that proposal ! ’ |
| 19 | I thought it was right and therefore we went ahead . |
| 20 | We liked Chris very much and it was obvious that they were very happy together , and so we went ahead with plans for the wedding . |
| 21 | We went ahead ; nothing happened . |
| 22 | ‘ If we went ahead 15 minutes from time and were performing , I would still fancy us to go through . ’ |
| 23 | Estimates were sought to replace the refreshment counter and erm indeed we went ahead with one of the estimates and the firm then went bankrupt in the meantime which erm I imagine is something Colin that you 're well used to . |
| 24 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 25 | We 're glad we went ahead and found out about research and about how parents perceive our work . |
| 26 | So we went ahead as planned : Beryl , Cathy Carne — you 've met Cathy ? |
| 27 | If you work on a seven point five figure , then you get up to twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty seven hours , erm , before next year , erm , That would leave us with a difficulty I think , because if I were , if we went ahead with the idea of recruiting two people now er we would need to get rid of four of them by , oh four people all together , erm , by er the next financial year , which clearly is not terribly sensible . |
| 28 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 29 | In this they might have taken heed of the Reich 's experience , but instead they went ahead and repeated that experience in miniature . |
| 30 | Once before they went ahead and believed , but it was a leap of faith with no questions asked and they fell and were hurt . |