Example sentences of "went [adv prt] to become " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had no doubt that her children were too important to be brought up by anyone else and , as others went on to become household names , she became a full-time mother , writing occasional children 's books as well as a storybook-guide to the handling of epilepsy based on experiences with her own son . |
| 3 | She was studying at the Royal College of Music when she moved into Coleherne Court with Diana , and then went on to become an opera singer , pausing only recently to have a couple of children . |
| 4 | With hands still firmly on hips , Joan went on to become the face that launched a thousand mannequins |
| 5 | He went on to become famous in the Cheltenham and Gloucester area , where he built many churches and railway stations , as well as Witley Court in Worcestershire , for the Earl of Dudley , and Cirencester Agricultural College . |
| 6 | The younger Dale went on to become a member of the Athenaeum , a knight and Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University . |
| 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 | She went on to become chairman of Guildford juvenile court magistrates . |
| 9 | His eldest son , John , wrote about St. Kilda ( MacGillivray , 1842 ) and William MacGillivray himself went on to become Professor of Natural History and Lecturer on Botany in Marischal College and University , Aberdeen . |
| 10 | She went on to become the British Champion in 1914 , 1920 , 1921 and 1926 and English Champion in 1914 and 1919 . |
| 11 | Further along the right wall is a list of the Duomo Archbishops , a list that includes many men who went on to become Pope . |
| 12 | He went on to become leading trainer in Madras for eighteen years and is set to retire to his property in Cheshire , which is fenced by the running rail from Castle Irwell , Manchester 's racecourse . |
| 13 | Many of the local and regular skaters from this era went on to become house-hold names in the UK and International skate scene ; people such as Steve Douglas , Bod Boyle , Danny Webster , Sean Goff , Mark Abrook , Barry Abrook , Shane Rouse , Phil Burgoyne , Davross , Gary Lee , Don Brider , Rodga Harvey and many many others . |
| 14 | Steve Douglas 's Fanzine ‘ Go for It ’ started this year , and from a piece of folded photocopied paper , it eventually went on to become a printed glossy skate mag covering much of the skate scene at the time and the next few years for which the Farnborough scene played a major part if not the main part . |
| 15 | This then later went on to become the Farnborough ramp . |
| 16 | It was a strong session but one track , ‘ My Favourite Dress ’ , stood out and went on to become hugely popular with the fans . |
| 17 | ‘ Windy ’ went on to become Headmaster of a School in Weymouth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Burgess Shales , as they have become known , is proof to Gould that chance is more important than natural selection , since they all died off without issue whereas some minor offshoots of the extinct phenotypes , like the Crustaceans , went on to become important stepping-stones on the evolutionary ladder from which mammals finally emerged . |
| 21 | The head of MI5 , and formerly a member of the ‘ domestic subversion ’ department , which snooped on Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman ( who went on to become Kinnock 's press secretary at the last election , and Labour 's health spokeswoman , respectively ) . |
| 22 | The case of Stefan Kiszko , wrongly jailed nfor 16 years — thanks , in part , to the eccentric defence mounted by his barrister , David Waddington , who went on to become a pro-hanging Tory Home Secretary . |
| 23 | The son of a former naval commander who went on to become a sales rep for a marine- engines manufacturer , Tim was educated at Sevenoaks School , a minor public school in Kent where he became house captain . |
| 24 | Young and beautiful , Lisa was Model of the Year in 1987 and went on to become the Face of the Nineties . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Carey had , from the beginning , planned for the work to be extended through native evangelists and Krishna went on to become one of the best ambassadors for Christ to his own people . |
| 27 | This miraculous work was achieved on one hand press by a single compositor , J.H. Mason , who went on to become head of the London School of Printing . |
| 28 | The book went on to become a best-seller and last year 's Presidential Christmas card was even ‘ paw-signed ’ by Millie . |
| 29 | From 1980 onwards I went on to become involved in the Black Workers ' Group , unions — NALGO and ACTTS — and more recently , the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group in our workplace . |
| 30 | He went on to become anchor man for Grandstand for more than 20 years , No. 1 soccer commentator on Match Of The Day and the undisputed star of A Question of Sport . |