Example sentences of "gone on [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 This idea of fair play has gone on to permeate the Challenge as a whole .
2 Microsoft has gone on to use the success of Windows itself to attack rivals who have made their names selling applications built around the old MS-DOS regime .
3 Speaking on Feb. 27 , Schwarzkopf confirmed that allied forces could have gone on to take the Iraqi capital had they been so ordered .
4 He had , in fact , long cherished a secret fantasy in which he had joined the privileged ranks of Oxford undergraduates , racketed through three glorious years of academic and sexual triumphs , then gone on to lead the kind of effortlessly successful life from which working-class origins and a foreshortened education had in reality excluded him .
5 It was ‘ abundantly clear that the byelaw maker , if he had appreciated the limitation on his powers , would both at Greenham Common and at Fylingdales nevertheless have gone on to make the bylaws in such a way that the proviso to section 14(1) was given effect but all the world save commoners would still have been within their ambit ’ .
6 Glasser talks of her as if , in walking out , she had gone on to walk the streets .
7 Lynch , who fell on Barney Maclyvie at the first 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have been told that a lot of good jockeys have fallen at the first fence in their first ride in the National and then gone on to win the race next time .
8 Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice .
9 The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots .
10 Their insistence on selling only complete packages made the cost of buying the guides too expensive , but at the same time individual purchasing libraries have often gone on to modify the guides for local use ; and this is the greatest block to co-ordinated and centralized production — librarians prefer to prepare their own guides , tailor-made for their particular local needs .
11 ‘ About 12 people went along to the basic 15 week course and of course we have six who have gone on to get the certificate .
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