Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] on [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen .
2 Keep the test papers safe or pass them on to the class teacher ( or the student ) so that weak areas can be diagnosed .
3 Can you eliminate some of the administration — or pass it on to the administrators — thereby releasing your time for more profitable activities ?
4 ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls .
5 He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents .
6 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 .
7 The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA .
8 Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’
9 Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’
10 The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas .
11 Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet .
12 We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice .
13 We will select a winner , publish the card in the paper , and send it on to the national finals .
14 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 .
15 Dampen the edge of the buckram , bring over the seam allowance of the band and press it on to the dampened edge , notching out excess fabric on inward curves .
16 Cut out or draw a picture of Freda and glue it on to the bookmark .
17 Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle .
18 Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row .
19 As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback .
20 From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn .
21 He said that he did not think that it was a high priority to ask the Home Secretary to take £40 million out of his budget and put it on to the Secretary of State for Transport 's budget .
22 Pertamina head office was especially active during the Flores emergency , acting mainly as central co-ordinator for gifts of money and clothing , and passing everything on to the disaster relief co-ordinators .
23 Jampel Changchub , aged 30 , was described as a ‘ principal member ’ of the group and was accused of ‘ collecting information and passing it on to the enemy ’ .
24 He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth .
25 He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor .
26 ‘ I know , ’ she replied and dropped it on to the couchette .
27 Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW .
28 I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table .
29 Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor .
30 In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations .
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