Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to take a difficult route back to the line almost immediately , or go on to the next farm and follow a track there . |
| 2 | Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper . |
| 3 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 6 | He wandered towards the doors that opened on to the wet street , and stared out at the people hurrying along the pavements , feet splashing in puddles , sodden raincoats , barging umbrellas , gleaming cycle capes . |
| 7 | Inside the two women who keep the inn serve through the hatch that opens on to the one room . |
| 8 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 9 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 10 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 11 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 14 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 15 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 16 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 17 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 18 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 19 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 20 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 21 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 22 | Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard . |
| 23 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 24 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 25 | He said nothing and she went , with smooth , unflustered movements , to the couch and dropped on to the yielding cushions and prayed for Oliver to come and quickly . |
| 26 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
| 27 | Pipe the words START and FINISH on to the top left and bottom right squares , and then pipe numbers on to the squares in consecutive order . |
| 28 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 29 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 30 | Most people 's income is taxed directly by their employers and handed on to the Inland Revenue , an arm of central government , under a system called Pay As You Earn ( PAYE ) . |