Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour Party 's 1,300-member central committee convened in Tel Aviv on March 12 and voted overwhelmingly to give the party 's executive committee ( comprising its 39 Knesset members and a further 87 senior officials ) authority to take whatever action it thought necessary to advance the peace process . |
| 2 | The label was still left with a vibrant mini-LP that débuted in the charts at number 22 and went on to sell nearly 30,000 , 6,000 of them in Israel . |
| 3 | Chancellor Norman Lamont 's push for growth will boost recovery prospects in 1993 but do little to alleviate the economic pain over the rest of the year , according to separate forecasts yesterday . |
| 4 | He repeated the best win of his career — over the Soviet No.1 , Andrei Mazunov , in Moscow last season — by saving a game point at 21-22 and going on to win 24-22 , 21-12 . |
| 5 | I took maternity leave in October 1986 and came back to work part-time in July 1987 working two and a half days each week . |
| 6 | THE Border Golfers ' Association , which began with the amalgamation of seven clubs in 1893 and went on to play a major role in the development of the Scottish Golf Union , will launch a season of centenary celebrations at Kelso on Sunday . |
| 7 | NX41964 was built as P-63E 43–11728 and went on to serve in Honduras . |
| 8 | She worked as a machinist until she married my father in 1946 and chose never to have a job again . |
| 9 | The Giants were leading the series 3-1 and wanted desperately to avoid returning to Wrigley Field for a sixth game . |
| 10 | They were expected to leave school at fourteen and go out to work to earn a living or take up technical training . |
| 11 | The Museum is rich in exhibits , ranging from a classic car collection ( most of which are on loan from their owners ) , to the Sultan of Oman 's personal VC–10 airliner , built by Vickers at Brooklands , making its first take-off on October 17 , 1964 and flying back to make its last landing there on July 6 , 1987 . |
| 12 | Mr Jefferson retired in 1976 and went on to help a friend with office work . |
| 13 | She joined Jean 's class in 1962 and went on to train as a teacher . |
| 14 | He drifted into films as a bit player in 1912 and went on to produce dozens of comedies . |
| 15 | The unbeaten Irish lead Group 3 and have yet to concede a goal — an error-free level of consistency that main rivals Denmark and Spain have so far been unable to match . |
| 16 | It has been said that old age comes as a surprise : I was then eighty but had yet to realise it . |
| 17 | To try out the 238 Syncaset I recorded a track using a drum machine on tracks 1–2 , rhythm guitar doubled onto tracks 3 and 4 ( then mixed and bounced onto track 8 , then bounced again through a compressor/noise gate back onto track 3 ) , bass guitar onto track 4 , harmony lead guitars onto tracks 5 and 6 ( again bounced onto track 8 and mixed back to track five with delay ) , lead vocal on track 6 , first vocal harmony detuned using the pitch control on track 7 and second harmony in normal pitch on track 8 . |
| 18 | Young and beautiful , Lisa was Model of the Year in 1987 and went on to become the Face of the Nineties . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Turning to Spitfire : The History , published by Key Publishing , I find that BM240 was named Clifton Cameras and was first issued to 452 ( RAAF ) Squadron in March 1942 and went on to serve with 602 ( City of Glasgow ) Squadron , 416 ( RCAF ) Squadron , 350 Squadron and finally with 65 Squadron . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By taking elements from the two and learning how to play them live together , it 's what I 'd call a real fusion . ’ |
| 23 | I again last month wrote to Mr to try a promote a drug free competition for a Sunday giving various dates of nineteen ninety two and have yet to hear . |
| 24 | Scottish , and very proud of it , just as Scotland is proud of him , John Young Stewart was born near Dumbarton , Strathclyde in 1939 and went on to become the most dominant Formula One driver between 1969 and his retirement in 1973 . |
| 25 | Fitted with a Renault engine , it first flew in 1937 and went on to become the standard Soviet primary trainer throughout World War Two . |
| 26 | Gerry scored on his Palace debut in our 2–2 draw with Manchester United on the opening day of 1969–70 and went on to become our top scorer that season . |
| 27 | Renbourn emerged from the British folk scene in the sixties and went on to form the acclaimed acoustic group Pentangle , and also released a number of albums with Stefan Grossman following the demise of the band . |
| 28 | He had cut his teeth on Shakespeare with Ben Greet in 1931 and went on to enlarge his Shakespearian repertoire throughout the rest of his life . |
| 29 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 30 | Bobby Neill , who won a British featherweight title in the 1950s and went on to play a significant role in the development of such top-class boxers as Alan Rudkin and Alan Minter , has said : ‘ … hungry fighters ? |