Example sentences of "[verb] on to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life . |
| 2 | But then there is one lounge suit , passed on to me in 1931 or 1932 by Sir Edward Blair — practically brand new at the time and almost a perfect fit — which might well be appropriate for evenings in the lounge or dining room of any guest houses where I might lodge . |
| 3 | Very little built on to it at that stage . |
| 4 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Would she scream insults , or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance ? |
| 6 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 7 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 8 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 9 | But then even if they do that and even if they get the franchise , they 're not going to be able to say , we can now hold on to it for five , or seven , years , however long the franchise is going to be , because if another bidder comes along in the meantime and says , we rather like this ourselves , they 'll be thrown off . |
| 10 | If a limitation period has just been missed , one useful argument is the fact that it is possible to issue proceedings one day before limitation expires and then to hang on to them for four months before they are served . |
| 11 | Jack had to hold on to him with all his strength . |
| 12 | For one of so gentle a character he could be extraordinarily defiant of gamekeepers , and threatening letters to my father passed on to him with added threats were not of the slightest avail . |
| 13 | The memes are being passed on to you in altered form . |
| 14 | You 've done extraordinarily well to get on to it at all . ’ |
| 15 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 16 | He held on to me through another pain , and wiped my face . |
| 17 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 18 | The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries . |
| 19 | By the next season 1923–24 , the outside-right position was Harry 's own — and he held on to it for another decade . |