Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
| 2 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 3 | Wordlessly , she allowed him to lead her on to the roadway and down the hill towards home . |
| 4 | Like the linker , it sits on the main bed and has a cog wheel and spring at the rear to lock it on to the needlebed . |
| 5 | Er I also need people to help me on with the bar wi serving on the bar . |
| 6 | ‘ Sadly there is n't a venue in England yet 1,200 British fans came over to cheer me on at The Hague in Holland recently . ’ |
| 7 | Yet although her support for women priests is well known , she says it was her interest in a wide range of other issues that persuaded local clergy and laity to vote her on to the Synod for five years . |
| 8 | Though I shall have to keep it on in the summer to keep er |
| 9 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 10 | Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital . |
| 11 | How did you manage to persuade British Rail to allow you on to the train so you could drag me off ? ’ |
| 12 | He told TV 's Panorama : ‘ They may try to nail it on to the perch again but nobody will believe it 's still alive . ’ |
| 13 | Spraying the aerosol is the best way to get them on to the enemy , but even this is difficult . |
| 14 | ‘ Blockbuster ! ’ is less satisfactory , however , a bunch of platform-heeled plodders that try in vain to get you on to the floor and dance round your handbag . |
| 15 | Now just having a little look in the paper here today and er well oh the Mary Whitehouse saga continues by the way we are absolutely determined to get her on before the end of the show we 've got ten minutes left . |
| 16 | It had once even gone so far as to empty him on to the floor for voicing an intolerant opinion on the Jesuits . |
| 17 | We 're allowed to have it on in the night when I 'm never fucking here ! |
| 18 | That is now the end because of the difference of one A but if you 're proposing that this comes at the end of one A , you 're proposing to tack it on to the end of roman numeral three in the labour amendment as was the council 's which I take it , was not what you intend its effect to be . |
| 19 | That meant the tyre would be that amount smaller than the actual wheel , so we had to heat up the tyre to expand it in order to get it on to the rim . |
| 20 | The prisoners were taken to the riverside , where a boat was waiting to take them on to the prison-ship . |
| 21 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
| 22 | And she had one or two hires including higher art and then somebody said oh that would be good for the P R department is looking for staff so she now is doing a superb job running a marketing operation , editing an internal newspaper it all herself and erm all of that I taught her , now I want to move her on to the stage where she can get professional recognition for this , now that is what I call an absolute beginner |
| 23 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 24 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 25 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 26 | The second Adam came , however , not only to save humankind , but to take us on to the destiny that should have been ours in the first place . |
| 27 | I 'll ask Campbell to take us on into the question of the role of this aircraft . |
| 28 | ‘ I could n't see too well with my contact lens cataracts , and the crew would walk me over to the wheelchair where they had to wheel me on to the sound stage . |
| 29 | a telephone call will tell you whether you 've the papers wo n't be drawn up but they will be able to tell him on through the phone whether it 's okay . |
| 30 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |