Example sentences of "[verb] on to the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forest manager Brian Clough is poised to challenge Middlesbrough 's resolve to hold on to the former England Under-21 international after having had Ripley watched during an impressive promotion season . |
| 2 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 3 | Accountants logging on in London see their own set of accounts , but all of the data is put on to the same database that New York and Hong Kong are using . ’ |
| 4 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |
| 5 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |
| 6 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |