Example sentences of "went on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on to the balcony , pulling on her silk kimono against the cold night . |
| 2 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 3 | Young Rawlins went on to the most arduous part of the game — attempting to memorise the host of gifts on a conveyor belt , ranging from a cuddly toy to a microwave . |
| 4 | At once Frau Nordern went on to the attack . |
| 5 | The legislation went on to the statute book in July 1986 and the new system was finally introduced in April 1988 . |
| 6 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 7 | Scottish graduates went on to the major foreign universities , notably to Paris , and to Cologne , Louvain , Bologna and Montpellier . |
| 8 | Having left the house of the famous Bess of Hardwick , he went on to the care of yet another Bess . |
| 9 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 10 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 11 | The loss of his favourite local was quite enough punishment to this patriot so ‘ Found in the coal yard ’ went on to the documents . |
| 12 | He never quite went on to the big scores but has now begun to put that right . |
| 13 | We went on to the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and searched here for the Yellow Sword . |
| 14 | We went on to the target , all the same , and we not only bombed , but obtained a photograph of the aiming point at the moment of bombing . |
| 15 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 16 | At sixteen , Coleby left school with two ‘ O ’ levels , while Peter went on to the sixth form . |
| 17 | He started his carrier as a lyrics writer and then went on to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 18 | Ninety three members and friends then went on to the Headlands Hotel for a celebration dinner where all the ladies received a white carnation . |
| 19 | Putting her glass on the bar , she went on to the dance floor with him . |
| 20 | He picked it up in an hour or two and went on to the guitar . |
| 21 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 22 | After the service the congregation went on to the School , where the new rooms were formally declared open by Major T.C. Toler , Chairman of the Cheshire County Council . |
| 23 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 24 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 25 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 26 | As is well known , the Sunday Times case then went on to the European Court of Human Rights which held that the injunction violated Article 10 of the Convention and its right to freedom of expression . |
| 27 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 28 | We went on to the marshes with the soldiers and found the escaped convicts fighting each other . |
| 29 | He went on to the barn , where the farm workers had already finished eating and started dancing . |
| 30 | The creative activity went on to the end of the Venetian and Ragusan republics at the turn of the nineteenth century and even beyond . |