Example sentences of "[vb past] on [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm .
2 Hero McCullough even went on to take the third round in his victory over the tough Cuban Joel Casamayor .
3 Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status .
4 He went on to chide the Fifth Army :
5 This led in Britain to the setting up the Meteorological Office under Captain FitzRoy , formerly of HMS Beagle , who went on to make the first weather forecasts in Britain .
6 In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton .
7 Its opening track , the self-assertive rap ‘ Sassy ’ , for instance is a pairing with Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr , who went on to contribute a second track .
8 Mayers then went on to add a first pitch ( ! ) to the line by climbing the left hand section of Right Wall between Cenotaph Corner and Lord of the Flies .
9 He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country .
10 Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed .
11 Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence .
12 Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence .
13 One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later .
14 Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 .
15 Mario went on to win the next race at the Glen and the championship by a handsome margin , with Ronnie posthumously second .
16 Freeth stayed on to become the first lifeguard too , and when he died during an influenza epidemic at the age of thirty-five it was said that he had exhausted himself rescuing swimmers .
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