Example sentences of "went [adv prt] become [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And the critic Richard Findlater , who later went on to become a dear friend , said , ‘ How dare the English equivalent of a national theatre employ a schoolgirl , whom none of us has heard of , and who ca n't do it ? ’
2 He went on to become a senior captain with an international airline .
3 He did , however , and went on to become a leading citizen .
4 A group called Simplicity was launched in Oxford and went on to become a national success .
5 Cherry went on to become a popular radio broadcaster and was sadly killed when leaving Broadcasting House during an air raid in 1940 .
6 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 .
7 He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 She went on to become the British Champion in 1914 , 1920 , 1921 and 1926 and English Champion in 1914 and 1919 .
13 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 .
14 She had one brother , John , who went on to become the High Commissioner in Cyprus .
15 These were collected by a stonemason , Hugh Miller ( 1802–56 ) , who became accepted as an authority on the subject and went on to become an outspoken critic of evolutionism .
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