Example sentences of "on to each " in BNC.
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1 | Two tired men holding on to each other to stop themselves falling down . |
2 | Just before serving spoon a little mayonnaise on to each egg . |
3 | This is the amount that beams on average on to each square metre , even in cloudy , wintry Britain . |
4 | The icy river was at least 4 ft [ 1–2 m ] deep and no boats could be found , but cavalry were stationed below the ford to catch any unfortunates who were swept away , and the infantry then crossed in lines abreast , holding on to each other . |
5 | The Fish got us a good position at the back of the club , where we stood on wooden beer crates holding on to each other as the floor seemed about to crack open with heat and stomping . |
6 | Slowly squeeze the icing on to each cookie , making any pattern you like . |
7 | Brush the back of the shapes with apricot purée , press a tree on to each corner of the cake and put four on top . |
8 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
9 | As you move the highlight bar on to each option , a brief explanation of that option will be displayed beneath the menu to help you . |
10 | The two held on to each other tightly . |
11 | Place one grid on to each drop , section side down . |
12 | The ethnomethodologists ' starting point is the very basic observation that conversation involves turn-taking and that the end of one speaker 's turn and the beginning of the next 's frequently latch on to each other with almost perfect precision and split-second timing ( Sacks , Schegloff , and Jefferson 1974 ) . |
13 | Body position and movement also play an important part — although the fact that turns latch on to each other successfully in telephone conversations seems to suggest that these factors , like gaze , are perhaps not as important as might at first appear . |
14 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
15 | here we could have a hundred N right and then we 'd add eight hundred on to each one could n't we . |
16 | Tossing the empty jar aside , he then pulled out a piece of chalk and drew a complex symbol full of mind-twisting curves on to each gatepost . |
17 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
18 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
19 | Helen dumped a spoonful of stew on to each plate except her own and sat down again . |
20 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
21 | Finish drying with the diffuser , pushing it on to each section of hair so it almost touches the scalp . |
22 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
23 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
24 | They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity . |
25 | If you like , you could pipe children 's names on to each animal too . |
26 | Erm , another day , when you tried to set some , and we were all dying , and we kept carry on going , but we could have said somebody would on to each other , or whatever |
27 | Surreptitiously now , she glanced across at his profile as Mrs Aitken piled baked Alaska on to each of their plates . |
28 | His passengers were all shaken and some were thrown from their seats and on to each other . ’ |
29 | It did n't seem much on its own but , when it was added to other suggested improvements , it could mean that each operator could put four parts on to each car in the same time . ’ |