Example sentences of "[to-vb] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 2 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 3 | The bowl is just the toddlers to clamber on to . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 5 | The children began to clamber on to her , calling for games , demanding she be a lion too this time , begging that they could all be mounted police , even the baby . |
| 6 | Entry qualifications are generally the same , that is five O level GCE passes or their equivalent , as those required to continue on to degree and other higher level courses , which is indeed what the great majority of students do when they have successfully completed their foundation courses . |
| 7 | When that happens , you simply ask the reader to carry on to the next shock-horror exclusive , and the next , and the next , and so on , until the point is driven home . |
| 8 | I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way . |
| 9 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 10 | Items to carry on to future agendas included the MacDonalds and affiliation and working with other groups . |
| 11 | Governors should recognise their power to co-opt on to their working groups , in a non-voting capacity , any member of the local community who could offer specific expertise and skills which they may be lacking . |
| 12 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict . |
| 13 | Should girls brought up in Britain be allowed to go on to further education ? |
| 14 | She 's taking GCSEs this June and hopes to go on to ‘ A ‘ levels . |
| 15 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 16 | At Holy Trinity , Brompton , all four priests are Old Etonians , one of the churchwardens is a former private secretary of Margaret Thatcher 's , and it is not unknown for members of the congregation to go on to a wedding reception in St James 's Palace . |
| 17 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 18 | He received an internal phone call from Muldoon , who told him that McGillicuddy wanted him to go on to Dublin immediately . |
| 19 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 20 | This may entail lining up a course or school that the child wants to go on to , or offering a financial inducement . |
| 21 | THE first thing to go on to the canvas was a sketch in grey wax crayon , which mixes happily with the oils , whereas graphite would turn to gritty soot . |
| 22 | In a remarkable record , he was to go on to win two further bars , in France that year and in Germany in 1945 . |
| 23 | When you are ready to go on to the next potency , the whole process is repeated with a single poppy seed granule of the desired strength . |
| 24 | Many sixth-formers , of course , left a maintained school to go on to universities , but only 10 per cent of these went to Oxford or Cambridge , compared with nearly half of the university-bound sixth-formers from the Public Schools . |
| 25 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 26 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 27 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
| 28 | So from US you have been led back to US AND GOD ; it remains to go on to GOD AND US . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 30 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |