Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 2 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 3 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 4 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 5 | Individuals may be more content and morale may be high , but does this necessarily lead on to an improved performance ? |
| 6 | If only to get on to the practical arrangements . ’ |
| 7 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 8 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 9 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
| 10 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 11 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 12 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 13 | There was a window in her bedroom , but it just looked on to a tiny area and did n't let in much light . |
| 14 | The voice-parts of the opening ‘ Domine ad adjuvandum ’ are largely composed on to a transposed version of the preludial ‘ toccata ’ a true Shakespearian ‘ tucket ’ of Orfeo . |
| 15 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 16 | This then results in a functional domain that can be directly mapped on to the relevant geometric domain . |
| 17 | I went on through , sliding the heavy plate glass aside to walk on to the humid porch where a morose looking McIllvanney slouched in a cane chair and stared through the insect screens at the darkening sea . |
| 18 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 19 | Despite his sleepless night , de Castelnau at once went on to the Right Bank and plunged into the work of re-animating the defence . |
| 20 | From now on applying any more brake really can spell disaster , for the normal mortal at least , because much of the weight is still thrown on to the front tyre and grip is scarce . |
| 21 | Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end |
| 22 | It says right get on to a new line . |
| 23 | Similarly , some couples assiduously hang on to a sexual problem as a defence against facing up to a much wider problem in their marriage . |
| 24 | Using a script command , the user is automatically logged on to the appropriate host once an application is chosen . |
| 25 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 26 | He emerged with the trophies for Scottish Lorry Driver of the Year and will now go on to the national finals at Telford in Shropshire . |
| 27 | It was above all his Dickensian capacity to take in social detail as part of a social sense that need not be political that Griffith really passed on to the American motion-picture industry . |
| 28 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 29 | It simply fits on to a standard 43mm diameter drill chuck , and uses a 12mm diameter tungsten-carbide tipped cutter to channel into breeze-block , brick , plaster and other wall surfaces . |
| 30 | The view here gave on to a terraced garden within the walls . |