Example sentences of "and [verb] on [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 2 | Ulysses opens with the horrifying story of the blinding of the one-eyed Cyclops , told with gusto , and goes on to recount the many other dangers Ulysses faced during his 10-year voyage on the ‘ wine-dark sea ’ , trying to get home after the siege of Troy . |
| 3 | The study then describes the underlying technologies of multimedia and goes on to evaluate the implications for such fields of use as education and training , business and professional applications and leisure and entertainment in the home . |
| 4 | Hans Kohn ( 1967 ) , emphasizing this last feature , observes that ‘ nationalism is inconceivable without the ideas of popular sovereignty preceding without a complete revision of the position of rulers and ruled , of classes and castes ’ , and goes on to note the importance of the rise of a new class , the third estate : |
| 5 | If Edberg wins and goes on to win the final , the London-based Swede will regain the top spot Courier has held for all but six weeks of this year . |
| 6 | The southern equatorial current is diverted south , past the Solomon Islands , and goes on to bathe the Great Barrier Reef — and , indeed , much of the Australian coastline down past Sydney — in the tropical water of the east Australian current . |
| 7 | The catalogue recalls that in 1938 Brame and Lorenceau held an exhibition of Rousseau 's work which contributed to the revival of interest in that artist 's work , and goes on to express the hope that eventually a museum devoted to Barbizon painting may be set up . |
| 8 | It begins : ‘ I hate the Stones and I hate blues … ’ and goes on to show the finger to the Hook and Chuck and Otis and Marvin and ‘ Reetha and Dylan and just about everything yer rock fan holds sacred . |
| 9 | She tried not to even consider the soft swell of his expressive mouth , and gabbled on to break the tense atmosphere . |
| 10 | Instead of ignoring the Alamo and its small garrison , and pressing on to fight the main Texan army , Santa Anna decided to take the Alamo by storm . |
| 11 | Then explore Graigueconna , make a brief tour of Bushey Park House and gardens and hasten on to watch the sun beyond the grandiose setting of Powerscourt . |
| 12 | In 1296 Edward invaded Scotland to subdue the ineffectual Balliol , massacring the inhabitants of Berwick and marching on to defeat the Scots at Dunbar . |
| 13 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 14 | He slipped to fifth with just four laps to go , but miraculously , he hauled himself third place and hung on to win the championship by just one point . |
| 15 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |
| 16 | The team clockwise from top left , James Tromans , 17 , Anthony Jewitt , 17 , Jennifer McCaffery , 18 , and Katie Lane , 19 , won the County Durham final of the Young Consumer of the Year event , and go on to represent the county at the regional finals in Gateshead on April 7 . |
| 17 | We sketch briefly the legal definition of casual working and go on to consider the special features of certain business operations within the hotels and catering industry which explain why casual workers are to be found there . |
| 18 | John Rennie , on two , then survived a sharp chance to Hutton at gully and went on to lead the recovery with a hard-hitting 84 . |
| 19 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 20 | One of his best friends at both Hollin and Moorclose high schools was Dave Fielding , who later played in a band with Gedge and went on to form the Chameleons . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party . |
| 23 | Johnson , after a moment of being stung at this carelessness , dismissed it as ‘ rather an inconvenience than a loss ’ , and went on to use the incident to defend his views on the second sight . |
| 24 | Its head , the urbane Norman Hartnell , designed the Queen 's wedding gown and went on to dress the women of the Royal Family in the finest fabrics . |
| 25 | Dr J Majo Cruzate , Advisor , Director General , DG XIII at the Commission of European Communities , after outlined the history of the European Single Market initiative up to Maastricht and ( probably ) beyond , and went on to extol the virtues of creating a single market for IT in Europe , with the European Commission 's roll seen as harmonising standards efforts and funding research . |
| 26 | The project began with an epistemological comparison of design with science , based on the philosophy of science , and went on to outline the ‘ logic ’ of intuition and creativity . |
| 27 | Similarly , the Fourth Lateran Council , in its second decree , condemned the teaching of Joachim of Fiore ( namely that there were four persons in the Trinity ) , as expounded in his book against Peter Lombard , and went on to define the duties of secular rulers and of bishops to fight heresy in their kingdoms and dioceses . |
| 28 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 29 | He found that K allowed him to ‘ look across the border into other realities ’ , and went on to take the drug every day for 100 days . |
| 30 | Carry on collecting all this week and you will have a great souvenir of the season in which Mansell won an amazing NINE Grands Prix , including the first five straight off , and went on to take the world crown for the first time . |