Example sentences of "[adv] on to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 2 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 3 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 4 | A smaller patch of lesser quality vines extends southwards on to the north-east-facing slopes of Mont Aimé . |
| 5 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |
| 6 | She threw herself backwards on to the wooden desk , and swung her legs high above her . |
| 7 | So , given the current limitations on my mobility , I apply a variation of the same technique , and convey myself , travelling from one silvery globule to another , and thus on to the nearest windowpane . |
| 8 | He obliged by hitting a vast drive about fifty yards beyond Harley 's , who then got his second shot just on to the front edge of the green and about forty feet from the flag . |
| 9 | All readers probably assimilate Gollum early on to the now-familiar image of a ‘ drug-addict ’ , craving desperately for a ‘ fix ’ even though he knows it will kill him . |
| 10 | The gravel can be laid directly on to the firm ground , but constant walking in wet weather will pound the gravel into the softened earth and you will , after a year or two , have to lay a fresh load to build up the path again . |
| 11 | All Souls was given a new roof oversailing the upper parapets , throwing water directly on to the lower aisle roofs . |
| 12 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 13 | In the past it has sometimes been difficult to avoid planting directly on to the marginal shelf , especially in pre-formed pools . |
| 14 | Third , attempts to map the eye movements directly on to the reported dreams ( in terms of direction of gaze , and so on ) have been dogged by the problem of actually measuring the position of the eyes using standard EEC equipment . |
| 15 | A computerised national criminal record system on the police national computer will enable police forces to enter information directly on to the national collection . |
| 16 | Nowhere is this more apparent than where access to farmland is most easily accomplished and is least organized — in those rural areas which abut directly on to the main centres of the population : the so-called ‘ urban fringe ’ . |
| 17 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 18 | Then she stepped quickly on to the nearest chair and stood there , listening . |
| 19 | I hop across the outer live rail to haul myself quickly on to the southbound platform . |
| 20 | The task of rebuilding TP298 fell logically on to the able shoulders of Craig Charleston , who temporarily imported the aircraft to his workshop facility near Colchester in February 1988 . |
| 21 | The original pirate radio ship Mi Amigo eventually drifted helplessly on to the Long Sand Head where she sank . |
| 22 | And then you 're straight on to the next job . |
| 23 | Brush liberally on to the exposed wood until the soft wood fibres are saturated . |
| 24 | Place the spaceship carefully on to the red spaceship base , so that the candy tips rest on the cake . |
| 25 | Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green . |
| 26 | Now on to the next hole , |
| 27 | Every winter the gales of Cornwall lift granite slabs off sea walls and toss them willy-nilly on to the nearest road . |
| 28 | This was no super-sixth-form with teachers guiding me smoothly on to the higher reaches of learning . |
| 29 | One of the bullets struck his forearm and he cried out , dropping the rifle which clattered noisily on to the concrete floor below . |
| 30 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |