Example sentences of "on [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Put on the clothes you put on to go to church on Sunday . |
| 2 | After aircrew selection in 1966 he went on to train on Jet Provosts , Gnats and Hunters . |
| 3 | Individuals have gone on to work in support of bands such as Bon Jovi , to take part in national competitions , to form club acts and to undertake the musician 's bread and butter work playing in theatre bands . |
| 4 | He went on to work in thermodynamics , and like Wheatstone to put his electrical knowledge to practical use in devices connected with telegraphy . |
| 5 | Today I no longer work in the grant-aided sector and a great number of women who were my colleagues and contemporaries have moved on to work in broadcast or cable television . |
| 6 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 7 | I can drive a tractor , ’ he said , and went on to speculate at length on the possibilities of the English dole . |
| 8 | His show ‘ A One Night Stand with Sean Hughes ’ transferred for a sell-out run at the Palace Theatre and then went on to play to capacity crowds at the Duke of York 's Theatre in the West End . |
| 9 | Before going on to look at re-entry and back to nursing courses in detail I would like to consider alternative routes of re-entry available to you first . |
| 10 | We went on to look at ligand gated channels , and in particular three different classes , acetylcholine gated , glycine gated , G A B A gated . |
| 11 | The reason for this is traditional : Roman friends were often called on to look after property or to care for members of a family . |
| 12 | Mrs Tholen , who went on to specialise in theatre work , has proved herself to be the gardener of the family despite her husband 's success with carnations carefully nurturing the acre of gardens in which their four-bedroomed detached home is set . |
| 13 | King Hassan , the Maghreb 's sole reigning monarch , had issued a swift and strong condemnation of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and he went on to vote in favour of the resolution adopted at the Cairo summit . |
| 14 | ‘ Unix is not open , only ajar ’ , Harold Mead of Metron Data told delegates during a talk on capacity planning , going on to describe in detail how , despite the fact that while data for performance measurement and capacity planning is available from Unix through utilities such as sar , ps , mpstat ( on some multi-processors ) , acctcom and last , data was often presented with different formats and content that could easily make a nonsense of the figures . |
| 15 | He goes on to refer to legislation in 1980 in West Germany and in 1982 in Italy whereby post-operative transsexuals are deemed to belong to their chosen sex and have the rights and duties of that sex . |
| 16 | GEORDIE Glam-rock band who had four Top 40 hits in the early Seventies , Brian Johnson went on to sing with AC/DC . |
| 17 | In a similar vein , the book goes on to review off balance sheet finance , capitalisation of costs , capital instruments , brand accounting and currency mismatching . |
| 18 | It then goes on to say of course new development in relation should be sensi sensitively related to existing settlement patterns . |
| 19 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 20 | We need , therefore , to understand the relationship of gospel to culture in general terms , and then go on to examine in detail its engagement with the specific culture in which we are involved . |
| 21 | I informed Mrs X that this was absolute rubbish and went on to explain about safety precautions , such as protective clothing and inoculations . |
| 22 | The convener went on to warn against funding schools on the basis of their pupil numbers . |
| 23 | However , he went on to warn against complacency , as although most large companies are conscious of their health and safety responsibilities , an increase in the number of small companies and contractors may cause a corresponding increase in accident figures . |