Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the other category of liability for personal injury or death which the party in default can seek to pass on to the innocent party is that relating to claims made against the party in default by third parties , who have suffered death or personal injury by reason of the negligence of the party in default . |
| 2 | The Labour Party has moved on to the social democratic ground , it may even choose to call itself a social democratic party — in any case , it should complete the process with a constitution to suit . |
| 3 | ‘ FROM OUT of the blue , 21-year-old Elvis Presley has rocketed on to the popular music scene with all the scorching fury of a meteor , ’ reckon the NME on May 11 , 1956 . |
| 4 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 6 | Both Civic Forum and Solidarity want to hang on to the one-nation sense of anti-communism ( and anti-Sovietism ) . |
| 7 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 8 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 9 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 10 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 11 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
| 12 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 13 | The trouble is that so are a lot of other people , and classy people at that , which is why old Joe ‘ I'm-a-dealer-in-architectural-antiques ’ Soap has climbed on to the pricey bandwagon . |
| 14 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |
| 15 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 16 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 17 | International discussion of service of process is influenced — and often confused — by the differing assumptions of the participants , each of whom tends to project on to the international plane the familiar features of his own national system . |
| 18 | In 1967 he wrote : ‘ Human beings will become so used to being crushed together that when they are on their own , they will suffer withdrawal symptoms : ‘ Doctor — I 've got to get on to a crowded train soon or I 'll go mad ’ . ’ |
| 19 | Here , depressive feelings associated with the originators of agriculture — the weaning mothers of the first , and every , cultivating generation — seem to have become displaced on to the new subsistence-pattern itself . |
| 20 | The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back . |
| 21 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 22 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 23 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 24 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 25 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 26 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 27 | If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’ |
| 28 | HTV 's advertising revenue rose 11.8 per cent to £101.8m , and the group managed to hold on to a creditable market share of 6.4 per cent as advertising has been sucked to South-east England . |
| 29 | The water rose higher but then , just as Old Shallot 's courage began to crumble into blind panic , the barge shuddered to a stop ; both my master and I ran ashore , grateful to fall sobbing on to the snow-soaked bank . |
| 30 | If you start to go on to the other p , side of the page , start again . |