Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] on to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 2 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 3 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 4 | The goat 's mask figure was lowered on to the chair . |
| 5 | A tricky wind was blowing on to the anchorage and what with snakes and the prospect of getting wet I lay off for lunch . |
| 6 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 7 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 8 | Conquest was almost half full of water after the passage , but she was bailed out and motored carefully towards the NE corner of the island where the bow was run on to the shingle at the water 's edge . |
| 9 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 10 | A rather odd concoction of wine , oil , salt and corn was sprinkled on to the house by Midlands , West & Wales director , Martin Smout who performed the ancient ‘ topping out ’ ceremony . |
| 11 | Yet , not all this increase in bulk costs was passed on to the consumers in retail tariffs . |
| 12 | Benjamin and I watched as Waldegrave 's corpse was hoisted on to the sheet . |
| 13 | Documentation was passed on to the Director of Public Prosecutions but Prime minister John Major indicated in the House of Commons on May 19 that the government would take no further action , while the US Defence Department stated on May 19 that it considered the case closed . |
| 14 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 15 | They sometimes got incredibly bold in the competition for the fish offal ; I have seen a fisherman cleaning out the insides of a fish while a gull was hanging on to the tail tugging frantically in its attempt to get a meal ! |
| 16 | Maureen was getting on to the museum about bringing an expert to have a look at the place . ’ |
| 17 | In its first year Dagenham produced 25,571 cars and trucks but as Ford 's presence in the UK grew , extension after extension was tacked on to the plant to accomodate tractor and commercial vehicle production , new foundries , paint shops , furnaces and export packing plants . |
| 18 | Until 1979 the British Rail over-night sleepers docked at Dover , where the train was shunted on to the ferry , split in two , one part heading for Paris the other for Brussels . |
| 19 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 20 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 21 | His first priority was to climb on to the rim of the sink and peer through the upper left-hand corner of the kitchen window . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Next , an Eradicator was fitted on to the pick-up feed pipe of an ITT Marlow surface pump which fed a sand filter , giving an amazing polish to the water in only 24 hours . |
| 24 | The copper was bedded on to the wood with tarred brown paper . |
| 25 | More significantly the same civil law principle led Sir Robert Phillimore , in the Admiralty Court in The George and Richard ( 1871 ) L.R. 3 A. & E. 466 , 480 , to hold that a posthumous child , later born alive , ranks as a child of its father — in that case a ship 's carpenter who lost his life when his ship was blown on to the rocks and wrecked following disablement in a collision — for the purposes of Lord Campbell 's Act , the Fatal Accidents Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 93 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ However , in fairness to Price Waterhouse , it should also be stressed that on other occasions — for example , in April and October 1990 — when the firm had made its audit report to the directors of BCCI , it ensured that some information was passed on to the Bank of England . |
| 27 | Chem Snguon was voted on to the Council of State ; Ros Chhun became Minister of Transport , Communications and Posts ; Hang Chuon became Minister of Information and Culture ; Yin Chaili became Minister of Health ; and Yos Son became Minister of Education . |
| 28 | The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point . |
| 29 | As the loose barley was unloaded on to the goafstead , a boy rode a quiet old farmhorse round and round on the corn , trampling it down . |
| 30 | A spot of light oil was dribbled on to the dildo from a greasy oilcan . |