Example sentences of "[verb] on to a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 2 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |
| 5 | This leads on to a dramatic low and a severe craving for another dose of the stuff . |
| 6 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 7 | Colman 's wartime and postwar work before the camera was less distinguished , though he did win an Oscar in 1947 for an uncharacteristically highly charged dramatic role in A Double Life before moving on to a lucrative second career in American radio and television , playing the professor in Halls of Ivy ( 1950–2 ) , a series he also produced and owned . |
| 8 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 9 | Clearing slips are collected by LIFFE officials and the details entered on to a computerized matching system . |
| 10 | The Heathertons lived in a tall grey house in Bath Street , in the best quarter of town ; it had coachman 's premises at the back , giving on to a narrow cobbled lane . |
| 11 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 12 | Yeah , try those for and er , I mean there , but there , they 'll go on to a similar any way , but just keeping up the enjoyment side and er |
| 13 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 14 | A detailed kinematic understanding is thus available and this can lead on to a comprehensive dynamic and performance analysis if so desired . |
| 15 | Secure loosely with a piece of string or an elastic band and put on to a microwave-safe roasting rack over a disk containing 3 tbsp stock . |
| 16 | Old values and class patterns of behaviour became grafted on to a new economic class . |
| 17 | The pool is lowered on to a prepared crushed gravel base , immediately filled with water , and at the same time , a gravel back-fill is poured in between the pool and the soil . |
| 18 | It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed , with no windows . |
| 19 | Yanto jumped on to a large flat rock , still trying to keep his boots dry , and looked down at the huge mud covered object . |
| 20 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 21 | Harvey scrambled up some roughly cut foot-holds , held on to a gnarled grey tree and offered me his other hand . |
| 22 | She and Victorine held on to a great square sheet . |
| 23 | IMRAN KHAN became the fifth player in Test history to take 350 wickets — joining Richard Hadlee , Ian Botham , Dennis Lillee and Kapil Dev — when he held on to a fine one-handed return catch to dismiss Ravi Shastri yesterday as India lost their last seven wickets for 143 on the second day of the fourth and final Test in Sialkot . |
| 24 | McClair clearly on the same wavelength , swept on to a perfect forward pass and shot narrowly wide . |