Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] on to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry .
2 Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 .
3 Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression .
4 There 's this man on this tree , it 's about 50 feet tall , the tree , and he 's er he 's just crouched on there , sitting there now , with a blue rope round his neck , and it 's tied on to the tree .
5 And so it 's passed on to the person in the school or college responsible for that .
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