Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] on to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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2 The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm .
3 They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour .
4 It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells .
5 A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data .
6 These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) .
7 Ray Warren left soon after and moved on to higher things , no doubt with some relief .
8 He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
9 After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation .
10 The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening .
11 He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport .
12 Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation .
13 He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers .
14 They rejected bananas and held on to buttoned coats .
15 He remembered how the travellers and the seafarers who came to Tara had always told that at the centre of every whirlpool , at the heart of every tempest , is a great tranquillity , and he caught and held on to this thought .
16 All around them people sat on their boxes and held on to precious bundles , patiently waiting for whatever might happen next .
17 He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy .
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