Example sentences of "[vb past] on [to-vb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an almost soundless flurry of activity , the cellar door was opened and the light switched on to reveal the ramped steps . |
| 2 | Peter Ueberroth , son of a travelling aluminium salesman , worked his way through college , single-handedly built a $300 million business , went on to organize the 1984 Olympics , became Time magazine 's Man of the Year and the commissioner of baseball . |
| 3 | He went on to commend the interpretive skills of Richard Benson , who made the halftone negatives and worked closely with the craftsmen at Meriden Gravure in Meriden , Connecticut , who printed the plates in tritone ( which involves making three negatives — for light , dark and middle tones — for each print , and two passes through the press ) . |
| 4 | After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship . |
| 5 | He went on to discuss the finer points of his work : Americans take the deepest divots , he said , the Japanese no divots at all . |
| 6 | Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated . |
| 7 | He won the NIBA singles championship , and went on to become the first Parks player to lift the coveted Irish title since Balmoral 's Alan McMullan in 1987 . |