Example sentences of "on [to-vb] at [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Not only did he go on to lose at Waterloo : he suffered the final indignity of living and dying in a house called The Briars on St Helena , far down in the South Atlantic .
2 There can not be many lyric-writers who have begun their careers in the theatre by dancing Scheherazade in a strip-club in Los Angeles , gone on to appear at La Scala , Milan and then to play the title-role in Mother Company .
3 He went on to work at Birmingham , Bristol and Luton , as he progressed to other jobs within the operations department .
4 Before going on to look at London Jamaican and Black London English in Chapters 4 and 5 , I shall discuss some relevant research and theory relating to Caribbean Creoles in Chapter 3 .
5 Liverpool- born , Oliver was for five years a chorister at St Paul 's Cathedral before going on to study at Oxford University where he met with his first operatic success in The Duchess of Malfi .
6 Educated at a state school in Hampstead , he went on to study at Oxford University .
7 His BMW went on to race at Le Mans .
8 So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards .
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