Example sentences of "[verb] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Paul looked down at his own oiled body , then spat on to his palm for added lubrication . |
| 2 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 3 | These trays take four or six PP3s ( depending on the model of detector ) which push on to snap terminals in the bottom of the tray . |
| 4 | There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said . |
| 5 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 6 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 7 | Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat . |
| 8 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 9 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 10 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 11 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 12 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 13 | After a brief stop-over at Patriot Hills they will be flown on to Punta Arenas in Chile where the expedition radio base was located . |
| 14 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 15 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 16 | Bloom got on to me and said he had received a letter from this young . |
| 17 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 18 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 19 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 20 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 21 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 22 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 23 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 24 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 25 | Terry got on to it through Amnesty International . |
| 26 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 27 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 28 | When pressed as to why he thought this was , he got on to what I later found was a cause he would die for . |
| 29 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
| 30 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |