Example sentences of "on to all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates . |
| 2 | They remind me a little of Georges Bataille 's pre-war secret cult , Acephale , whose goal was to get rid of the head — starting with the moral guardian in one 's own head , the super-ego , then moving on to all the other ‘ heads ’ ( the father , the State , the Law , God ) . |
| 3 | Gazzer pushed himself painfully up on to all fours , peered around to get his bearings and scuttled , like a crab , past the swing-boats , down towards Mr Bishop 's kiosk . |
| 4 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 5 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
| 6 | First cut away the damaged wood , then brush the special hardener on to all remaining soft fibres . |
| 7 | Hanging on to all the jobs |
| 8 | Quigley et al. ( 1976 ) report on the tendency of deaf children to try to fit subject — verb — object patterns on to all sentence constructions . |
| 9 | Lord Owen rejects the idea that the Bosnian Serbs can hold on to all the territories they now occupy . |
| 10 | What was given to her , passed on to all of us , was a powerful and terrible endurance , the self-destructive defiance of those doing the best they can with what life hands out to them . |
| 11 | They 've just added time on to all the journeys . |
| 12 | From the fact that it leads on to all sorts of other questions , we can reasonably infer that many of the justifications given in the literature are indeed question-begging . |
| 13 | When , without warning , Fernand dropped on to all fours beside a huge outcrop of bare rock , she all but fell on top of him . |
| 14 | Sally has asked that her thanks be passed on to all of the staff in the Library who supported her so generously . |
| 15 | in the second half so we can expect to see Collimore racing on to all sorts of long balls now . |
| 16 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 17 | The Galks saw the time traveller , lowered themselves on to all fours , and bounded across the desert . |
| 18 | We pay fifteen percent extra on to all all the business you bring in above that figure . |
| 19 | When it 's hard to hang on to all your reins . |
| 20 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |