Example sentences of "on [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 2 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 3 | Wigan are 7-4 on to win the First Division championship with Corals . |
| 4 | Lauda , however , went on to win the first race of the season as Hunt crashed out on lap 33 . |
| 5 | Mario went on to win the next race at the Glen and the championship by a handsome margin , with Ronnie posthumously second . |
| 6 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 7 | Chris refuses to do something I 'm afraid when somebody 's already done three quarters of the work , you ca n't put somebody on to do the last quarter . |
| 8 | Once the court is satisfied that there is evidence that D was provoked to lose self-control , it must go on to consider the second requirement : was the provocation enough to make a reasonable man do as D did ? |
| 9 | Middlesbrough-born Glendenen went on to score the first century , having become only the second Durham player to make a double-century when he hit 200 not out against Victoria last September in a three-day match unluckily denied first-class status . |
| 10 | He went on to chide the Fifth Army : |
| 11 | Each goal should last one week before she moves on to add the next goal to her eating behaviour . |
| 12 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 13 | The following season Jerry was a vital member of the Palace team which won the 2nd Division Championship and then went on to take the 1st Division by storm . |
| 14 | Hero McCullough even went on to take the third round in his victory over the tough Cuban Joel Casamayor . |
| 15 | The quality of his contribution is underlined by the fact that when he retires as Scotland 's senior coach at the end of this five nations series , he will go on to coach the next Lions tour in the summer . |
| 16 | He won the NIBA singles championship , and went on to become the first Parks player to lift the coveted Irish title since Balmoral 's Alan McMullan in 1987 . |
| 17 | He went on to become the first director of the National Monuments Record , the body that catalogues the most important buildings in country . |
| 18 | Maybe despite or because of failing ‘ O ’ levels she went on to become the first woman engineer at her college because her earlier setbacks had made her determined to prove that she could succeed . |
| 19 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 20 | Peggy Lucas was one of the first women to fly Spitfires and went on to become the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot 's licence . |
| 21 | Freeth stayed on to become the first lifeguard too , and when he died during an influenza epidemic at the age of thirty-five it was said that he had exhausted himself rescuing swimmers . |
| 22 | This led in Britain to the setting up the Meteorological Office under Captain FitzRoy , formerly of HMS Beagle , who went on to make the first weather forecasts in Britain . |