Example sentences of "[verb] on to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 2 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 3 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 4 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 5 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 6 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 7 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 8 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 9 | RIGHT The check chain fits on to an ordinary leash , by a circle as shown here . |
| 10 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 11 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 12 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 13 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 14 | Striker John Borthwick wasted his side 's best opportunity of the half , latching on to a loose ball on the edge of the Stoke penalty area and making space for himself , only to fire lamely at keeper Ronnie Sinclair . |
| 15 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 16 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 17 | The Bishop goes on to the human eye , asking rhetorically , and with the implication that there is no answer , " How could an organ so complex evolve ? " |
| 18 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 19 | The ribbon of tarmac goes on to the lonely outpost of Leck Fell House , a speck of civilisation in a wide panorama that has no other sign of life . |
| 20 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 21 | She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street . |
| 22 | It was painted while and there was an untidy hedge in front of it , divided by a rickety gate which led on to a short path to the front door . |
| 23 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 24 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 25 | A beautifully open and controlled solo from Andrew Coy ( clarinet ) led on to an expansive string sound and a rollicking dance . |
| 26 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 27 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 28 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 29 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 30 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |