Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] on to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 2 | Should Blackburn hold on to the end , do n't taunt Kenny Dalglish about buying the title . |
| 3 | Swarf smiled in triumph , letting the body fall on to the ground . |
| 4 | With luck , these two new Windows-based spreadsheets should help Lotus hang on to the 40% of the market it currently controls . |
| 5 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |