Example sentences of "went [adv] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gomes went on to an unbeaten century , thanks to Malcolm Marshall . |
| 2 | I then went on to an Orion double bed , followed by a pink Passap ; I still wanted a single bed for speed — we ran a guest house and I was deprived of all knitting during the summer months . |
| 3 | Dorothy George , after describing the " roastbeef " of old England , retained her rose-coloured spectacles as she went on to an extraordinarily generous view of the Poor Law . |
| 4 | The article went on with an account of Walter and Hilda 's early married life , against a background of dole and depression . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 6 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 7 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 8 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 9 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 10 | This assumption that films had to be bland to be entertaining , and refusal to acknowledge that movies could usefully enable audiences to deal with fears and nightmares , went along with an unwillingness to acknowledge that audience tastes and sensitivities were being shifted by television . |
| 11 | This aesthetic refusal went along with an unwillingness to develop a strategy for ensuring a continued capacity to make their sort of films . |
| 12 | Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical , experimental investigation of the world , so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work ; for example , in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun . |
| 13 | Kyaw Nyein went along as an Adviser , and Rance also wanted Thakin Nu to go : he was , he told London , ‘ The most important member of AFPFL Working Committee excluding Aung San ’ ( 29 December ) , but he remained behind to give direction to the League while the others were in London . |
| 14 | We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy . |
| 15 | This , sadly was my last foray for the month as I went down with an attack of bronchitis soon after this expedition , and form which I have not fully recovered . |
| 16 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 17 | they lost by six at Crewe … won by five against Colchester … and then went down in an eight goal bonanza last week … |
| 18 | Wh when you went in as an apprentice , did you have any i i idea of what the job was . |
| 19 | We went in with an open mind , but I have to be honest , the presentation was so abysmal , that there was no way that we could in fact continue with them , and we have the same problem with the cleaning contract . |
| 20 | She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds . |
| 21 | Titron went over to an angle of thirty-five degrees . |
| 22 | He stood up and went over to an escritoire and took a piece of paper out of a drawer . |
| 23 | He went over to an ornate walk-in fireplace surmounted by heraldic animal heads carved in stone and pulled a fraying red cord . |
| 24 | After 1795 — when the United Irish Society went underground as an armed , revolutionary movement — Robert remained prominent . |
| 25 | Cambridge dominated after the interval , but Millwall went close to an equaliser in the 63rd minute when Etienne Verveer headed against the foot of the post . |
| 26 | Skipper Brian Robson , Lee Sharpe , Giggs , and Gary Pallister , all went close to an equaliser but United 's two best chances fell to the mercurial Cantona . |
| 27 | two went further in an effort to oppress his rage against his father , and to avoid a highly threatening career situation . |
| 28 | defendant with handicap of 24 hit ball with toe of his golf club , so that it went off at an angle of 30 degrees . |
| 29 | All four of the Lions ' tries came from the three-quarters , including Anthony Clement , who switched from full-back to right wing after Hunter went off with an injury which puts a big doubt over his immediate tour future . |
| 30 | United 's luck changed then as Martin went off with an ankle injury , to be followed a few minutes later by Stoke defender Chris Hemming , a clattering tackle on Derning brought the red card out of the referee 's pocket and boos for Hemming . |