Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had B lost on the question of law in the Court of Appeal , it is practically inconceivable that the court would not have gone on to deal with the remaining points of appeal . |
| 2 | If we go back to the education example , and suppose that the first vote is between L and M , then if the rich vote sincerely L wins , and in the second round H defeats L. On the other hand , if the rich had voted for M in the first round , then M would have gone on to win in the second round . |
| 3 | He had gone on to talk of his brother , killed five years earlier in Northern Ireland : |
| 4 | From the ordinary subjects of casual conversation — books , recent plays , acquaintances they had in common — he had gone on to talk about himself . |
| 5 | Ivy had gone on to ask about me : ‘ I believe he is in rather low spirits . |
| 6 | For Bernadette Quli , that worry turned into a nightmare when the woman she had taken on to look after her six-month-old daughter , Farrah , fled to Ireland with the baby . |
| 7 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 8 | And there are many men and women who , having ‘ failed ’ at a first marriage , have gone on to learn from that failure and to have extremely happy second marriages . |
| 9 | Individuals have gone on to work in support of bands such as Bon Jovi , to take part in national competitions , to form club acts and to undertake the musician 's bread and butter work playing in theatre bands . |