Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 4 | The room was long and plain , stretching down to french windows which gave on to a railed veranda and a view of the gardens and river beyond . |
| 5 | Reluctantly she stepped on to a moving walkway that carried her through a mishmash of exotic atmospheres . |
| 6 | Wearing a check two-piece suit and sporting a poppy on her lapel , the duchess smiled broadly as she stepped on to a red carpet . |
| 7 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 8 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 9 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 10 | Having walked through the wood , she emerged on to a small , high plateau , from which a wide sweep of the countryside below was visible . |
| 11 | We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
| 14 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 15 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 16 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |
| 17 | However , Newell made amends in the 64th minute when he raced on to a hopeful through ball , rounded Hitchcock and fired home . |
| 18 | After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting . |
| 19 | Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety . |
| 20 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 21 | The moment he emerged on to a flat stretch of road after negotiating a particularly tight corner the explanation was obvious . |
| 22 | It gave on to a shadowed court whose centrepiece was an orrery on a stone plinth . |
| 23 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 24 | IMRAN KHAN became the fifth player in Test history to take 350 wickets — joining Richard Hadlee , Ian Botham , Dennis Lillee and Kapil Dev — when he held on to a fine one-handed return catch to dismiss Ravi Shastri yesterday as India lost their last seven wickets for 143 on the second day of the fourth and final Test in Sialkot . |
| 25 | It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed , with no windows . |