Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 2 | She went on to a safer subject . |
| 3 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 4 | The jockey went on to a second success for Playing Truant 's trainer David Gandolfo , partnering Ballyroe Lady to victory in the Tattersalls Mares Only Novices ' Chase . |
| 5 | After a midweek game in London , the cousins went on to a two-day binge . |
| 6 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 7 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 8 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 9 | He then went on to a pre-foundation course , then the intermediate course at Sutton Art School , followed by two years at Wimbledon Art School . |
| 10 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 11 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 12 | I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch . |
| 13 | He crossed the track on his belly and went on up a further hundred yards before starting his circle . |
| 14 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 15 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 16 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 17 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 19 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 20 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 21 | That went on for a long time . |
| 22 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 23 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 24 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 25 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 26 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 27 | This went on for a long time . |
| 28 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 29 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 30 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |