Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek ..
2 ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’
3 I dropped on to the wet doorstep , worn out and hopeless , prepared to die .
4 They told me they were on holiday today and shyly peeped round great blocks of stone as I climbed on to the hitching post of the sun , the most sacred place in the temple .
5 Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck .
6 As I burst on to the empty platform , the train starts to pull away .
7 Once inside , she sank on to the quilted bench opposite the marble vanity and stared at her reflection .
8 Then with a sigh she sank on to the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , feeling the soft springs of the mattress bounce beneath her weight .
9 She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this .
10 As she turned on to the dual carriageway that ended only a few miles beyond Naas , the rain spat against the windscreen .
11 And then you get on to the chemical properties of it .
12 Reluctantly she stepped on to a moving walkway that carried her through a mishmash of exotic atmospheres .
13 Wearing a check two-piece suit and sporting a poppy on her lapel , the duchess smiled broadly as she stepped on to a red carpet .
14 She stepped on to the tall boy 's left ankle .
15 In 1988 , she stepped on to the ministerial ladder as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment , where she took charge of one of Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's pet hates — litter .
16 Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down .
17 She stumbled on to the parched grass , taking in her surroundings .
18 SHE teetered on to the vast Playhouse stage and into the Pointer Sisters hit I 'm So Excited — and suddenly the audience was too .
19 But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it .
20 But if you look at the sixty five and add on the twelve , it 's er seventy seven and of course if you go on to the actuarial figures actually get better as you get older in terms of actual lifespan .
21 Once you go past the end you go on to the red and if you win it
22 Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 .
23 Having walked through the wood , she emerged on to a small , high plateau , from which a wide sweep of the countryside below was visible .
24 We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion .
25 She held on to the far side of the desk , and moaned .
26 She held on to the slim hope of the towel as a disguise .
27 Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip .
28 Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists .
29 We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge .
30 Now can we move on to the reduced quantities of role equipment .
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