Below you will find example sentences with "went ahead". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Went Ahead in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: ahead
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.7 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "went ahead" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 28.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as aberdeen went ahead in the, and still went ahead to kill, two, early and minutes stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with went viral, went missing, went down, points ahead and days ahead, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with went ahead
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The Mustangs went ahead to stay after jumping ahead 15-0 in less than 10 minutes. (16 words)
Adika made two early 3s and Littleton also knocked one down from deep as USC went ahead 11-5. (19 words)
Although it was rejected by the British Medical Association, the Welsh Government went ahead and imposed the pay increase. (19 words)
Things were fairly evenly matched as Lajal took the opening set and went ahead early on in set two, but with things at 4:3 in his favor he went on to have his serve broken twice and lose 6:4 to the Austrian, ranked 168th in the world. (49 words)
After the Cardinals went ahead 7-6 on Nolan Arenado's second 2-run homer of the game, the Sox answered back again in the seventh and Remillard walked with the bases loaded to force in the go-ahead run. (40 words)
Zambia went ahead in the 19th minute through Israel based Kings Kangwa but South Africa cancelled out the lead in the 40th minute through Lyle Foster ensuring that the two sides went for the break tied 1-all. (38 words)
How could any Fulani cattle rearer went to someone’s farm and destroyed it and still went ahead to kill him? (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
After the Cardinals went ahead 7-6 on Nolan Arenado's second 2-run homer of the game, the Sox answered back again in the seventh and Remillard walked with the bases loaded to force in the go-ahead run.
Ahead of the strike Swaziland Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini threatened workers they would be sacked from their jobs if they went ahead and each could face a fine of up to E10,000.
The Mustangs went ahead to stay after jumping ahead 15-0 in less than 10 minutes.
Things were fairly evenly matched as Lajal took the opening set and went ahead early on in set two, but with things at 4:3 in his favor he went on to have his serve broken twice and lose 6:4 to the Austrian, ranked 168th in the world.
The Flyers went ahead by two goals 4:32 into the third when Niskanen’s slap shot from the faceoff circle went under Varlamov’s stick hand.
How could any Fulani cattle rearer went to someone’s farm and destroyed it and still went ahead to kill him?
Zambia went ahead in the 19th minute through Israel based Kings Kangwa but South Africa cancelled out the lead in the 40th minute through Lyle Foster ensuring that the two sides went for the break tied 1-all.
Aberdeen went ahead in the fifth minute when an eight yard shot from Luis ‘Duk’ Lopes took a deflection to beat keeper Zander Clark.
A cricket World Cup match involving Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, however, went ahead in the city on Monday with organizers installing air purifiers in the players’ dressing rooms and using water sprinklers to reduce pollutants in the air.
Adika made two early 3s and Littleton also knocked one down from deep as USC went ahead 11-5.
After a postponement, the tie went ahead on a Tuesday night in late January and the Black and Whites won 2-1 to book a fourth round trip to Ayr United.
After several months of warnings and failed attempts to remove those persons, the Housing Ministry went ahead and demolished all the structures on the reserves on Thursday.
Although it was rejected by the British Medical Association, the Welsh Government went ahead and imposed the pay increase.
Altrincham were well on top in the early exchanges and went ahead but Bickerstaff scored twice in three minutes to put Wrexham 2-1 up at the break.
As the travel plans went ahead, Sonia was encouraged to establish a relationship with the donor through text messages, jurors were told.
Baidu CEO Robin Li said Ernie Bot was still not perfected, but the company went ahead with presenting it due to high demand.
Baltimore went ahead 7-1 on Mullins’ homer before Boston rallied behind Duvall, who fell a single shy of the cycle.
BC went ahead 21-15 prior to the third media timeout on an off-balance fadeaway on the baseline by DeMarr Langford Jr. Langford missed the final two games of the regular season with an undisclosed illness.
Because he did not tell Hakainde the truth, the president went ahead to promise the people that the govt will do everything to retrieve ALL the bodies of the trapped miners.
Bilbao went ahead through an early goal from Inaki Williams, before the game was stopped after around 15 minutes when officials were alerted to a problem in the stands.