Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on to a [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 Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck .
4 Reluctantly she stepped on to a moving walkway that carried her through a mishmash of exotic atmospheres .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it .
8 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 .
9 Having walked through the wood , she emerged on to a small , high plateau , from which a wide sweep of the countryside below was visible .
10 We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion .
11 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 .
12 Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may .
13 We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science .
14 Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre .
15 The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader .
16 As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery .
17 Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot .
18 It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens .
19 However , Newell made amends in the 64th minute when he raced on to a hopeful through ball , rounded Hitchcock and fired home .
20 After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting .
21 Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety .
22 It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief .
23 The moment he emerged on to a flat stretch of road after negotiating a particularly tight corner the explanation was obvious .
24 It gave on to a shadowed court whose centrepiece was an orrery on a stone plinth .
25 Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash .
26 IMRAN KHAN became the fifth player in Test history to take 350 wickets — joining Richard Hadlee , Ian Botham , Dennis Lillee and Kapil Dev — when he held on to a fine one-handed return catch to dismiss Ravi Shastri yesterday as India lost their last seven wickets for 143 on the second day of the fourth and final Test in Sialkot .
27 It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed , with no windows .
28 Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will .
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