Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 2 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 3 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday . |
| 4 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 5 | She was n't looking forward to it , which is a little surprising for a 16 year old who , just 3 years ago , combined all the elements of her talent to produce the compound which exploded her on to the junior tennis scene ! |
| 6 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 7 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 8 | The 63-year-old woman , named only as Christel R , threw herself on to the spinning blade at Beverungen , Germany . |
| 9 | Then one of them held her , threw her on to the dry dirt road and started to undo his belt . |
| 10 | Then I took the oldest of the wasp cadavers from its little tray and tipped it on to the white pile of granules . |
| 11 | Could it be , thought Henry , as a shower of yams , bottled gherkins and packets of pastrami disgorged themselves on to the red-tiled floor of the kitchen , that his present bouts of cultural amnesia were a response to his mother 's extravagant hopes for him ? |
| 12 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 13 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 14 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 15 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 16 | He pushed her aside and unclipped the 331b launcher from the tripod then carried it to the back of the van where he dumped it on to the grey blanket which they had used to cover it . |
| 17 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 18 | Indeed it had been the combination of Rowthorne 's suggestion and her fury over the pin-up issue which saw her on to the editorial board . |
| 19 | He hated it especially now as he dragged it out of its corner in the garage , squeezed it between his Vauxhall Viva estate car and the twins ' tricycles , and rolled it on to the uneven surface in front of the garage doors . |
| 20 | You should take it in but you did n't — just rolled it on to the next beat . |
| 21 | He eased it on to the narrow road and it coughed and spluttered along . |
| 22 | after that we sort of passed it on to the one next you know what to expect , but if it was down to my mother she 'd never tell you . |
| 23 | I am sorry not to have replied to your fax sooner but I passed it on to the wrong person for answers to your questions on promo videos . |
| 24 | At the time he made a report to the then Keeper of the Indian Section , Robert Skelton , who passed it on to the Indian authorities . |
| 25 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 26 | With some wariness I lowered myself on to the front edge of his couch , while form one side more flunkeys appeared , guiding a hover-table laden with delicacies and fancy drinks . |
| 27 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 28 | How could they , she thought in sudden sentiment , and the anger carried her on to the next street . |
| 29 | Police folklore tells of one officer who , having found a dead body on the street at the end of his duty , shifted it on to the next beat . |
| 30 | Through that we obtained a middle generation , who then passed us on to the older generation of the family . |