Example sentences of "[verb] on to an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIGHT The check chain fits on to an ordinary leash , by a circle as shown here . |
| 2 | A beautifully open and controlled solo from Andrew Coy ( clarinet ) led on to an expansive string sound and a rollicking dance . |
| 3 | He passed on to an empty table . |
| 4 | For high earners , the £75,000 cap is probably the strongest argument for hanging on to an existing Section 226 policy , since such policies are not affected by the earnings limit . |
| 5 | If she went out into the rue du Bateau her suspicions might latch on to an innocent person coming from one of the other flats . |
| 6 | This would seem appropriate to the early stages of learning a foreign language , but is too restrictive if carried on to an advanced level . |
| 7 | This south façade of Manor Farm was built on to an earlier house in 1725 . |
| 8 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 9 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 10 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 11 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 12 | The arched door , bearing the same lion and shield as Nicolo 's plane , opened on to an enclosed atrium . |
| 13 | Its front door opened on to an average Cotswold high street . |
| 14 | The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families . |
| 15 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 16 | Le Saux , Clarke and Wise all went within inches of scoring while West Ham threatened only once , Beasant holding on to an unexpected volley from Foster . |
| 17 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |
| 18 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , one can get some useful mileage out of the 1960s surveys , before moving on to an historical account . |
| 20 | Once you have an exact description of the job then you can move on to an accurate description of the ideal candidate to do it . |
| 21 | It can not be grafted on to an alien stem . |
| 22 | By contrast , in the Devon village of Broadclyst , it is the middle-class estate of four-bedroomed detached dwellings that has been grafted on to an older core of smaller , less attractive houses . |
| 23 | Do n't indulge in the verbosity of the amateur , or try to hang on to an inappropriate bit of writing just because you wrote it . |
| 24 | From the drawing or painting of a real aquarium one could go on to an imagined aquarium and allow the children to invent fishes of their own design and colour , and other water creatures , shells , etc . |
| 25 | Gomes went on to an unbeaten century , thanks to Malcolm Marshall . |
| 26 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 27 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
| 28 | Individuals may be more content and morale may be high , but does this necessarily lead on to an improved performance ? |
| 29 | In the context of futures trades on recognised or designated investment exchanges , money received by a member firm must often be passed on to an intermediate broker or to the exchange or clearing house concerned where it will be combined in an account with funds attributable to other clients . |
| 30 | Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew . |