Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect .
2 There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch .
3 He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount .
4 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
5 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
6 The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation .
7 Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip .
8 In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened .
9 There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning .
10 But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books .
11 The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice .
12 The Bishop goes on to the human eye , asking rhetorically , and with the implication that there is no answer , " How could an organ so complex evolve ? "
13 Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything .
14 The ribbon of tarmac goes on to the lonely outpost of Leck Fell House , a speck of civilisation in a wide panorama that has no other sign of life .
15 The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships .
16 As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us .
17 She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street .
18 He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden .
19 Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’
20 It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper .
21 It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor .
22 When it eventually reveals the secret of life itself , or something approaching it , it will be , you can rest assured , passed on to the ordinary people out there .
23 I had to go on to the usual horror .
24 It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance .
25 A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight .
26 Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet .
27 I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties .
28 At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought .
29 Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers .
30 The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back .
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