Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grenade dropped right on to the cab floor in front of Rex . |
| 2 | They mounted the slight slope and , turning right on to the Westport road , walked towards the village . |
| 3 | She pulled Midnight 's head up off the grass , gathered him together and drew him delicately on to the garden path . |
| 4 | No that 's only on at the weekends darling |
| 5 | At 4.30 am the Corporal of the day , a squat pig-like Polynesian called Vigno , came round the rooms , turning on the lights , throwing open the windows and tipping people out of bed , at the same time screaming at us in French to get downstairs on to the parade ground for ‘ appel ’ or roll call . |
| 6 | This now fits exactly on to the cone winder . |
| 7 | ‘ Ready , ’ Trent said and watched the mestizo vault one-handed on to the cabin top for a quick word with the vaquero at the mast . |
| 8 | They are planning a huge weekend skating festival , to take place early on during the school Summer hols , in the West Country possibly near Bath . |
| 9 | Sales were hit early on by the Gulf war and profits fell 19 p.c. to £2.8m . |
| 10 | ‘ Early on in the State Department , we took to calling him the rent-a-colonel , in tribute to his ability to simultaneously milk the antagonistic intelligence services of Cuba and the US , ’ said Mr Francis McNeill , a former deputy assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs . |
| 11 | It would appear to be the case that , for this kind of effect to take place , the word 's function must be made available to the syntactic and semantic processes very early on in the access process . |
| 12 | Some groups ( for example people with long-term rheumatoid arthritis ) typically experience a progressive deterioration which usually starts fairly early on in the disability career . |
| 13 | By taking the computer processing offshore on to the survey boat — the Geco Resolution — for the first survey over a prospect in Block 6 , the seismic team were able to collapse the serial process of acquisition , processing and initial interpretation , to a parallel process . |
| 14 | He had remembered having seen , that first day , some goats grazing further on down the river bank , had made some inquiries and discovered that they were taken down on to the river bed every morning by a boy who acted as herd . |
| 15 | Evaporites can then be taken directly on to the precision grinder for first face lapping using paraffin oil as lubricant , but other rocks need a further stage . |
| 16 | Their pin chucks fit directly on to the headstock spindle , bringing the work closer to the bearings so putting less strain on them . |
| 17 | As I hang on to the arm-rest with white knuckles , it is clear to me that Brundle has decided not to attempt the corners but to go straight on to the escape road : the turn is impossible now ; it 's just a joke ; he 's trying to scare the shit out of me . |
| 18 | Walk straight on to the Slavata Palace . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going straight on to the Guide Hut through the West Wood . ’ |
| 20 | The old road ran straight on along the gorge edge . |
| 21 | Later on in the station canteen he had everyone hanging on his words . |
| 22 | Fenella clambered cautiously on to the oak log and grasped the ledge . |
| 23 | Hilda collapsed slackly on to the divan bed . |
| 24 | He descended the stairs slowly in the dark , his hand holding tightly on to the banister rail . |
| 25 | On the forecourt he unlocked the car and threw the diaries across on to the passenger seat before sliding in behind the wheel . |
| 26 | A quick cup of tea with Ewen and then on to the Loganair Twin Otter which slithered up the slushy runway and took the over-sea route to avoid the worst weather en route to Barra stopping at Benbecula . |
| 27 | It 's straight into make-up as the experts behind-the-scenes work a little magic , then on to the wardrobe department for that all-important on-screen outfit . |
| 28 | No patients would be identified and the information would be confidentially passed to the British Medical Association and then on to the Home Office . |
| 29 | As she headed for the path that crossed the garden to the pool and then on to the pine forest and olive grove , she heard one solitary , impassioned call that hung hauntingly in the hot air . |
| 30 | He returned it to the Society and it was agreed that the arrow would be retained from then on as the Papingo Trophy , with each winner adding a gold or silver medal bearing his name and the year of his success . |