Example sentences of "[verb] on to the [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army .
2 Signing on to the DSD scheme , for instance , puts one more barrier in the way of a foreign firm wanting to sell in Germany .
3 The service 's interest began with his trade with Russia , then moved on to the Iran-Iraq war and the build-up to the Gulf crisis .
4 The driver revved up enthusiastically and turned on to the October Bidge .
5 ‘ So , you 've gone to the top , ’ Buckmaster commented as they turned on to the Okehampton road .
6 He emerged two minutes later with a bulky small man , and the Land Rover turned on to the Cambridge road , making for the headquarters of the regional crime squad .
7 Back along with the back to what you would call the sea crossing er to and get on to the Rousay pier then and get a dinghy or something and row across to Wyre .
8 Mr Devlin is the son of a surgeon , and was educated at Dulwich College before moving on to the London School of Economics where he graduated with a BA in modern history .
9 It has also , however , benefited from the success of another show , ‘ Moore Intime ’ , in the private art gallery , Galerie Didier Imbert until 24 July ( see The Art Newspaper No. 17 , April 1992 , p.22 ) and moving on to the Sezon museum , Tokyo , for three weeks in September as part of a four-museum tour .
10 It will then move on to the Cleveland Museum of Art .
11 Minton 's intelligent responsiveness , to the character of people and places , was in operation the moment he stepped on to the SS Bayano of the Fyffes Line .
12 Middlesbrough prop Phil Wright was yesterday called on to the Yorkshire bench , where he will join his former clubmate Jim Chapman .
13 I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) .
14 Earlier this year , the Ince-based agricultural chemical firm , warned that jobs were under threat if the European Commission did not take action to prevent cheap Russian fertilisers being dumped on to the UK market , making competition virtually impossible .
15 After a delightful dinner party with young friends in their lovely Phillimore Gardens home , I went on to the Lancaster Hotel , where the Diamond Ball , which was an inaugural ball for SANE ( Schizophrenia A National Emergency ) was taking place in the hotel 's new ballroom which I was told seats 1,400 guests .
16 NORTHANTS might just struggle to hold on to the NatWest trophy they won on Sunday .
17 THE Phoenix Players stepped on to the Rialto stage last night with their presentation of O'Casey 's ‘ Juno and the Paycock ’ .
18 In addition , it believes Encina could have quite conceivably gone on to the ES/9000 mainframe instead of Tuxedo , but thinks IBM 's deal with USL for that technology is effectively a spoiler for Amdahl Corp 's Tuxedo TP system offering on its IBM-compatible Unix mainframes .
19 When Perdita last saw her as Victor 's bimbo in 1981 , Sharon 's hair had been dyed the colour of strawberry jam , her splendid breasts had floated like beachballs out of her skin-tight polyester dress and her six-inch spike heels must have terrorized any lurking moles as she tripped on to the Rutshire pitch at treading-in time .
20 After closing in Virginia , the exhibition moves on to the Frick Art Museum , Pittsburgh ( 19 December-14 February 1993 ) ; the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston ( 13 March-9 May 1993 ) and the Seattle Art Museum ( 3 June-25 July 1993 ) .
21 On 1st June 1885 , a group comprising 118 of the exiled Nez Perce arrived at Lapwai , while Joseph 's 150 followers continued on to the Colville Reservation .
22 These were sometimes directly discounted for coin or notes but , as we have seen , were increasingly sent on to the London agent for collection .
23 When his mother had gone , Jarvis got into a District Line train at Wimbledon Park , changed on to the Victoria Line at Victoria and on to the Jubilee at Green Park for West Hampstead .
24 SHE took a short cut across the fairway from her £1,000-a-week rented house backing on to the Wentworth course in Surrey minutes before HE arrived to head a charity tournament .
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