Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 6 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Old values and class patterns of behaviour became grafted on to a new economic class . |
| 12 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 13 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |