Example sentences of "[vb past] on [to-vb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen Victoria lived on to see these tremendous changes and in June 1897 , when the British Empire was probably at its peak , she celebrated her Diamond Jubilee with great pomp and ceremony . |
| 2 | He started as financial controller and then moved on to become executive assistant manager . |
| 3 | But Carroll went on to harvest three high-scoring waves , putting the pressure back on his opponents . |
| 4 | As Charlwood Lawton put it in 1693 , there were Jacobites for reformations , " That think it Lawful for Kings , and their Parliaments , to limit and explain the Nature of Prerogatives " , and he went on to advocate certain legal reforms , reform of the militia , the frequent sitting of Parliament ( Lawton was writing before the passage of the 1694 Triennial Act ) , and Parliament 's right to scrutinise and punish ministers of state . |
| 5 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |
| 6 | I went on to say that local authority support for public libraries which simply put books with a homosexual theme on to their shelves would not constitute promotion of homosexuality . |
| 7 | Southampton went on to collect three more bookings , but they still had the remarkable talents of Le Tissier and Shearer , who is reported to be a summer target for United . |
| 8 | She then went on to describe certain physical attributes of Lorimer De Belving that would be known only to an intimate . |
| 9 | Chapman switched Jimmy Brain from inside-forward to centre-forward to create a powerful new source of goals , for Brain went on to score 31 that season , breaking the club 's individual record . |
| 10 | It went on to sell four million copies around the world , the lion 's share , it was noted with some satisfaction within Virgin , in territories where Virgin had their own label . |
| 11 | Within a year Horne and Peach settled the issue in Lapworth 's favour and went on to demonstrate great horizontal displacements of rock along the Moine Thrust , a discovery which established their international reputation . |
| 12 | ‘ Only when it was in the net did I realise what size it was and it weighed 26 ob 8 oz , ’ added John who went on to bank five other pike , two of 8 lb 8 oz , and others of 10 lb , 11lb and 14 lb . |
| 13 | I think my G P actually sent me further down hill into anorexia after I 'd lost about , about when I was seven stone I went to see her , I 'd never seen her before and she said well you look perfectly acc , sociably acceptable to me so I went on to lose two more stone before going back to see her and was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency ! |
| 14 | Despite Spurgeon 's refusal , the University went on to invite several famous ministers to give the annual lectures . |
| 15 | It went on to highlight another 66 reports from various parts of the world of serious reactions to the drug . |
| 16 | At all events , the plaintiff pleaded over and , in the replication or reply , went on to state many additional facts . |
| 17 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 18 | It went on to make two historic recommendations : that the Institution should give more overt support to the Society of Surveying Technicians , formed in 1970 by the General Council of the RICS , pointing out that the notion that the profession needed persons with technical qualification to ‘ come in at the bottom ’ and stay there was insensitive to human aspirations and naïve in its recognition of the Society 's worth ; and that practitioners should henceforth be required to undertake structured Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) — a courageous and necessary proposal ( see below ) . |
| 19 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 20 | But it then went on to make some disparaging remarks about the bestowal of a knighthood on such a person . |
| 21 | The NCC report went on to make 59 detailed recommendations , many of them , by implication , sharply critical of current practice and attitudes at both national and local level . |
| 22 | From that point there was no way back for the Prestwick man , and Corsie went on to add another 7-2 win in the third set , thanks mainly to a count of 4 on the third end that finally sealed Gourlay 's fate . |
| 23 | Wigg went on to list various other imperfections from which the poor animal was suffering . |
| 24 | Only four horses cleared it , including Tina Cassan with Genesis , but this was the horse 's first show since December and he went on to lower three other fences . |
| 25 | Writing in 1980 , Ford bemoaned the fact that ‘ the presidency does not operate effectively ’ and went on to identify two principal areas of difficulty — the Congress and the bureaucracy . |
| 26 | He went on to obtain three more A-levels at school . |
| 27 | [ Che went on to discuss several basic problems in Cuba at that time ] : ( 1 ) There was disturbing revolutionary sentiment , armed men and sabotage . |
| 28 | He was working against the natural grain of his genius , and the fact that he went on to write two more plays suggests the triumph of will over natural capacity , of idea over sensibility . |
| 29 | McLeod-Wright went on to win another four times — he was the most prolific winner in the history of the race — and his replica trophies and medals from 1930 , 1931 and 1932 are also up for auction , together with the Commowealth marathon gold medal he won in Hamilton in 1930 . |
| 30 | Admittedly , Peak District was following in the wake of Star Player , who had won the same Beverley event last season , but it is most unlikely that this fully-exposed six-year-old — hard fit from two wins in all-weather hurdles — will ever aspire to the achievements of Star Player , who went on to win three other races , including the Chester Cup . |