Example sentences of "went [adv] to become the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hands still firmly on hips , Joan went on to become the face that launched a thousand mannequins |
| 2 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 3 | She went on to become the British Champion in 1914 , 1920 , 1921 and 1926 and English Champion in 1914 and 1919 . |
| 4 | This then later went on to become the Farnborough ramp . |
| 5 | Lisboa went on to become the leading soccer club of the day and eventually changed its name to Benfica , the club renowned today in world soccer . |
| 6 | Young and beautiful , Lisa was Model of the Year in 1987 and went on to become the Face of the Nineties . |
| 7 | In a neat piece of role-reversal , Lewis , who went on to become the Wales Under-21 coach , is now Jenkins 's assistant at Stradey . |
| 8 | Fitted with a Renault engine , it first flew in 1937 and went on to become the standard Soviet primary trainer throughout World War Two . |
| 9 | She had one brother , John , who went on to become the High Commissioner in Cyprus . |
| 10 | Scottish , and very proud of it , just as Scotland is proud of him , John Young Stewart was born near Dumbarton , Strathclyde in 1939 and went on to become the most dominant Formula One driver between 1969 and his retirement in 1973 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With Maurice Thompson and Samuel Moyer [ qq.v. ] he was involved in trading ventures with West Africa , which brought him into competition with the East India Company , but he went on to become the company 's deputy governor in 1657 and its governor in 1659 . |
| 13 | The musical forms that emerged out of the American black experience — gospel , blues , jazz initially ; soul , funk , rock'n'roll , R&B , reggae , rap , House eventually — went on to become the dominant repertoire of popular music throughout the world , no matter how watered down . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |