Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] on to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when her legs were lifted on to the couch , the croak turned into a stilted scream as she cried , ‘ No ! |
| 2 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 3 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 4 | Standing in the Platz in her elegant coat and furs Erika was on the verge of tears : first the books were thrown on to the flames and then , in a terrible and inevitable sequence , human beings were put into the incinerators . |
| 5 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 6 | Cargoes were off-loaded on to the stone docks , and again they caught the sharp pungency of unknown spices . |
| 7 | But the bills were dropping on to the doormat and I felt I had no choice . |
| 8 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 9 | It is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the , the , the , the , erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets . |
| 10 | He quoted fully from Miller 's letters on pollination of tulips by bees and on cross-fertilisation of white and red cabbage , and these observations were passed on to the Royal Society ( Phil . |
| 11 | Additional poems bearing individual dates were transcribed on to the endpapers of the British Library copy from a manuscript owned by Dixon 's niece , a Mrs Eliza ( née De Langle ) Bunce , possibly the child of an unidentified sister . |
| 12 | Two days later , journalists , television crews , a smattering of ‘ celebrities ’ , and even some paying passengers were loaded on to the plane for its inaugural flight . |
| 13 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 14 | Significant quotes from players were passed on to the writers who heard , for example , that the Europeans had a " quiet " lunch after the opening foursomes , that Tony Jacklin did n't sleep too well one night , that Strange and Kite do n't hit it as far as some , that the Americans were " stunned " after the first day and that , mostly , players thought the crowds behaved reasonably well . |
| 15 | By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan . |
| 16 | There was a constant hissing when Zoecke was serving and coins were thrown on to the court . |
| 17 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 18 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 19 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 20 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 21 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 22 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 23 | On the morning of Aug. 19 , tanks were sent on to the streets of Moscow and other major cities as it was announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had effectively been deposed . |
| 24 | All four disks were put on to the printer 's hard disk and the images were fine-tuned before the final film and plates were made . |
| 25 | A sense of fatalism kept her still as long legs in thigh-hugging jeans were lowered on to the chair . |
| 26 | The trucks were shunted on to the company 's sidings , unloaded by the company 's employees , and loaded with the jam , made from fruit harvested locally and brought direct to the factory . |