Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] on to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 2 | Kate had somehow knocked over her cup , and tea spilled on to the tray , splashing her skirt . |
| 3 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 4 | They arrived in July 1547 and took the castle , after a brief siege featuring a spectacular air-battle in which the outer walls were battered by artillery hoisted on to the church steeple of St Salvator 's College and the abbey walls ; the lairds disappeared into prison in France , and Knox and others went to the galleys . |
| 5 | As she was about to hand a cup to another air man , Peggy happened to jostle her arm and the tea sprayed on to the counter , splashing the man on the other side . |
| 6 | The first defendant passed on to the plaintiff this indication of interest by Mr. Perot . |
| 7 | Out of that curve , Doohan grabs another gear and the warbling exhaust note signals that the rear tyre is still scrabbling for grip as he shifts up again and aims at the daunting , sixth gear left on to the back straight . |
| 8 | The juggernaut bucked and the poet held on to the side to prevent himself being thrown around . |
| 9 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 10 | York skyline painted on to the car by artist Paula MacArthur . |
| 11 | The tutor 's personal machine switched on to the cube . |
| 12 | Miss Brunton 's home backed on to an alleyway at the rear of their house . |
| 13 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , the Cat Woman , ’ Nassim said casually , then yelled : ‘ Care-ful ! ’ as part of the window-frame dropped on to the bathroom carpet . |
| 15 | With a Newtonian reflector , therefore , the observer looks into the tube rather than up it , so that for pointing to a planet or a star it is usually helpful to have a small refracting telescope mounted on to the side of the tube to act as a finder . |
| 16 | Peter Cazalet 's travelling head lad rushed on to the course to lead the horse away as a bemused jockey was taken back to the weighing room . |
| 17 | Instead Ford has decided not to pass the Government 's tax cut on to the motorist but to pour it into its own pockets and profits . |
| 18 | The body thrown on to the ambulance . |
| 19 | Lucifer pointed out to Eve the forbidden apple on the flat tree painted on to the back panel of the cart . |
| 20 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 21 | Just at that moment I heard the kitchen door open , and seconds later my father appeared at the bottom of the stairs and , taking hold of the great wooden ball sculpted on to the top of the last banister , stood glaring up at me . |
| 22 | Next day he would come with a rough square tacked on to the inside . |
| 23 | Coffin hung on to the side of the car door as it swerved round a cyclist . |
| 24 | The lamb bounded on to the seat of the throne and turned to face them . |
| 25 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 26 | He lost his hold on the bag and a slew of rice and chicken and ochre sauce splashed on to the carpet . |
| 27 | When Toby had gone , the headmaster got on to the organizer of the Championships . |
| 28 | How much of this delightfully frank list of requirements the Earl passed on to the man he approached for the job of chairman , the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark ( Winchester and Oxford ) , is not recorded . |
| 29 | The backyards of the houses in this road faced on to a canal . |
| 30 | One man held on to the lawyer 's sleeve . |