Example sentences of "and [vb past] on [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Later , in an interview in the Financial Times of Feb. 8 he spoke of a " fundamental review " of the ANC 's stance on the nationalization of key industries and went on to urge foreign companies to visit South Africa to investigate investment opportunities . |
2 | ‘ He lost interest and went on to invent other things , ’ Mr Hunkin explained . |
3 | Captain John Ledingham with Castlepollard beat his team mate Francie Connors on Balarus Diamond Express and went on to take third place with Garraun . |
4 | He was badly beaten up by late substitute Carl Thompson , who scaled 13st 3lb — around 17lb more than Benn will weigh tonight — and went on to become British cruiserweight champion . |
5 | He became Channel 4 's first Commissioning Editor for Sport when the channel opened in November 1982 and went on to become Senior Commissioning Editor with responsibility for a wide range of programmes including documentaries and children 's . |
6 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
7 | In the House of Commons he responded to Tony Benn 's comment that ‘ despair and a sense of social injustice have often lain at the roots of civil disturbance ’ , by suggesting that Mr Benn was selective about which laws people ought to obey and went on to provide another explanation : |
8 | In 1911 she won a magazine essay competition and went on to write short stories , newspaper articles , and during the 1920s two long series of articles for the Catholic Fireside magazine . |