Example sentences of "[to-vb] on to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governors should recognise their power to co-opt on to their working groups , in a non-voting capacity , any member of the local community who could offer specific expertise and skills which they may be lacking . |
| 2 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 3 | There was a long moment when she strove to clutch on to her dwindling resistance , then something seemed to make it snap , and she gave herself up to the delicious agony of his touch , helpless in his smouldering embrace . |
| 4 | And you would miss Carn Mor Dearg which , after the relentless pull to climb on to its broad back , rewards you with the most fabulous views , and an easy walk to its summit . |
| 5 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 6 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
| 7 | I do not believe in a nuclear civil war in the Soviet Union — I think that Nazarbaev and Krawczuk want to hang on to their nuclear weapons as a defence against a Russian attack . |
| 8 | At one extreme is the Ministry of Defence , determined to hang on to its exclusive tenure of Range West and , with the exception of half a dozen conducted walks it 's prepared to allow from Stack Rocks to Freshwater West every summer , to keep out the public . |
| 9 | Even DEC may find that it may need to hang on to its V.3.2-level Ultrix rather longer than it intended : it says that so far about 500 of the 3,000 Ultrix applications are being converted for OSF/1 , which does n't sound like unbounded enthusiasm on the part of the industry . |
| 10 | After their loss of Normandy in 1204 the king-dukes were all the more concerned to hold on to their southern lands . |
| 11 | Dolphins that feed mainly on squid usually have fewer teeth and have developed other adaptations to hold on to their slippery-bodied meals . |
| 12 | It is the particular genius of British politics that the major parties have always managed to hold on to their respective extremists and so to draw their teeth . |
| 13 | With the scent of him dizzying her senses it was all she could do to hold on to her common sense once more . |
| 14 | Robyn ground out , forcing herself to hold on to what little composure she had left . |
| 15 | They tell the listener that the speaker wishes to hold on to his conversational turn , but at the same time asks for assistance . |
| 16 | Francis Bacon advised King James to hold on to his royal wastes and hunting forests for exactly this potential ; and , as if to confirm the good sense of such drainage enterprises , a series of bad winters between 1607 and 1613 created some of the worst floods in living memory . |
| 17 | ‘ I want you to get on to your divisional headquarters and ask them to organise a search of the moor in the neighbourhood of Jordan 's farm . |