Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] on [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Having designed the Commodore International Ltd PET Personal Electronic Transactor , and moved on to found Sirius Inc , later Victor Technologies Inc until he was caught out when the world discovered that ‘ runs MS-DOS ’ did n't mean ‘ IBM-compatible ’ , Chuck Peddle hopes that he 'll soon be back with a bang . |
2 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
3 | Pat and Chris were very fond of animals , and kept on throwing things for Sausage , whom they knew , of course , as Fido . |
4 | The blackbird then flew up and took the cheese from his hand and kept on taking pieces of cheese . |
5 | He was very angry about the shooting and kept on shouting threats about what he 'd do to Lou Vecchi when he caught up with him . |
6 | He just nodded and smiled and went on chewing Chicken Thallium , slowly and methodically Henry tried to think of a remark that would go with an expansive gesture . |
7 | Nkrumah also made an African tour , in which he built up his relationship with president Nasser , and went on to visit Nehru in India . |
8 | Raúl Castro , having worked closely with PSP members at the university during 1952 , attended the Communist-sponsored Fourth World Youth Congress in Vienna in February 1953 and went on to visit Bucharest , Budapest and Prague . |
9 | She gained the best School Certificate results at her school in Norfolk and went on to take science subjects for Higher Certificate . |
10 | He came back to England and went on drinking champagne alone , and nerved himself to do a TV series without Fred . |
11 | Russianization was pointless while they kept the lower orders in their place and went on providing generals for the Russian army . |
12 | He took a third class in part i ( 1930 ) and a first class in physiology in part ii of the natural sciences tripos ( 1931 ) , and went on to do postgraduate research on nerve physiology and conditioned reflexes . |
13 | Gustavsson made the leading group 1.5km from the finish and went on to outsprint Blyth and Rohr for first place , a brilliant recovery from a dismal start . |
14 | At the 1988 tournament , held in Hong Kong , South Korea and Japan emerged first and second respectively and went on to play Western Samoa and Tonga for two berths in the 1991 World Cup . |
15 | Some of the boy actors were very good , and went on to play men 's parts when they were older . |
16 | After studying the report , which reiterated the multitude of reservations expressed over the last few months and went on to accuse architect Dominique Perrault of having sacrificed functionalism for the sake of aesthetics , President Mitterrand accepted Perrault 's design , making only the most cosmetic of changes to appease the powerful lobby against the building . |
17 | At 27 , he started his own photographic agency and went on to make films on the proceeds , using the talents of advertising colleagues such as Alan Parker or of friends like Ray Connolly . |
18 | Born in 1913 , he was educated at Clifton College and went on to read law at Bristol University . |
19 | In 1931 Eliot reviewed Middleton Murry 's biographical study of Lawrence and went on to read Lawrence 's letters , to which he referred in 1933 . |
20 | Anderjays Our Marcus won Best Exhibit at the 1988 Rottweiler Club at the Victoria Championship Show and went on to win runner-up in show at the 1988 Melbourne Royal Show . |
21 | He was educated privately and at Rossall , and went on to study architecture under a tutor at Cambridge . |
22 | Andrew Ball read music at Oxford and went on to study piano at the Royal College of Music . |
23 | Michael began his career producing revues and went on to become London 's most experienced and successful producer of new plays . |
24 | Having trained with Ms Knight , McKinnon became her associate director at Perth and went on to become director of York Theatre Royal and Northern State , Newcastle . |
25 | We had talked books and Thomas and I left together and went on talking books . |
26 | They wished him all possible prosperity in the future , and went on to elect Dr. Thackeray unanimously as physician to the infirmary . |
27 | Morpeth Harrier Archbold , who will go for the five-race Wearside Grand Prix title , made his break at the two mile mark and went on to beat Sunderland 's Martin Armstrong by a comfortable 30 seconds . |
28 | Against South Tyneside Andrew Kirtland , Eddie Taylor , Peter Welburn and skip Eric Ramsdale collected five shots at the second end and went on to dominate C Brider , W Robertshaw , G Loughlin and K Donkin to win in style by 31–12 collecting 13 shots over the last five ends . |
29 | He celebrated his international debut against New Zealand in Johannesburg in August with a try and went on to face Australia before playing in both Tests against France . |
30 | The Court therefore excluded the confession wrongly obtained by the police and went on to quash Samuel 's conviction for armed robbery . |