Example sentences of "on to that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You hang on to that , love . |
| 2 | Under this pressure , all ordinary human ambivalence and doubt is outlawed : adopters become guilty or angry when the relationship does not proceed according to the fantasy or reality of ordinary parenting ; children suppress their fantasies of an alternative life with birth parents — or hold on to that fantasy all the more tenaciously — and birth mothers , in particular , are pushed into a denial of their own experience and feelings . |
| 3 | I cottoned on to that . |
| 4 | Yes , we are living in Hard Times ; but no , let us not go gently on to that good ledge . |
| 5 | And then it may become very angry , and then few would he strong enough to hang on to that leg ! |
| 6 | But last Saturday Major climbed on to that soapbox in Luton . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Jack Kerouac never lived to see the success of it , ironically passing on to that great hippie gathering in the sky on 21 October 1969 . |
| 8 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 9 | Meditation is holding on to that silken thread throughout life . |
| 10 | When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community . |
| 11 | ‘ Hold on to that bloody cider , ’ Billy yelled Yanto twisted around on his seat and looked at Billy . |
| 12 | ‘ Hold on to that for dear life , because once you 've lost it , you 've lost everything . ’ |
| 13 | Hold on to that thought and try not to panic . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll get my dad on to that brother of mine . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I 'm coming on to that . |
| 16 | When the trade unions established the Labour Party as a parliamentary voice for organised labour , they likewise established the ‘ duty to win ’ — to achieve power in Parliament and then to hang on to that power come what may , or put more bluntly , regardless of socialist principle . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's the character that pushes someone on to that level , ’ advises Mr Austin . |
| 18 | They tended to cast doubt on the objective nature of the atonement — at least the Catholic scholastics and Reformers had held on to that — stressing instead the subjective changes wrought in mankind by Christ 's sacrifice ( such as a growth in God-consciousness or moral transformation ) . |
| 19 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 20 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 21 | ‘ I reckon he will hold on to that England No. 9 shirt for years to come . ’ |
| 22 | He had ‘ found himself ’ young and firmly held on to that ; as he was to do with remarkable consistency . |
| 23 | Schwantz is the master of wrenching the bike upright on to that fatter part of the tyre , jumping on the gas and pulling the tightest , quickest line out of a corner . |
| 24 | How did I get on to that ? |
| 25 | I 've put it resting on the dish so that any acid from it does n't get on to that bench there . |
| 26 | Erm what kind of publicity material we require , and we 'll come on to that later because we did elect a publicity sub group I remember . |
| 27 | Well I 'll come on to that in a sec . |
| 28 | You hold on to that and you and you can , sort of talk it through . |
| 29 | With that , hold on to that . |
| 30 | It can either be fixed or it can be mobile , we 'll go on to that , I 've actually drawn you four pictures , not very good pictures |