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

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1 When the Daily Telegraph thundered on to his front doormat , he could get up and do the crossword over the pot of tea that served as his breakfast .
2 Turner , who was helping old mate Barry Fry at the time , moved on to his present job .
3 Sometimes these were ad hominem arrangements-that in Kefe was dissolved after a year and that in Kutahya when the holder moved on to his next post , though Kutahya was recreated a mevleviyet in 989/1581 — but many of them had become permanent by the end of the century .
4 Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script .
5 He moved on to his own fight and talked about Bowe .
6 At first Mike worked as Tom 's assistant but he soon moved on to his own assignments .
7 In winning the Light Manx Courtney added on to his Junior win on Wednesday and this was in addition to the Newcomers success he scored last year .
8 In return Jaq had received a new electro-tattoo , imprinted on to his right cheek by Carnelian .
9 He turned on to his right side , then he turned on to his left , wracked with the shamefulness of the memory .
10 He turned on to his right side .
11 The light shone on to his upturned face and gleamed on the burnished flanks of the mare who blew through her nose impatiently as though to ask what they were waiting for .
12 Blew on to his scalded fingers .
13 The following year he won the 500 race at the North West at 88.71mph , and then went on to his first World Championship successes , in both the 350 and 500 classes , the first man ever to do so .
14 Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him .
15 To Marquand , MacDonald 's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long .
16 Sole contender to get over the 23rd fence at the first attempt in a huge pile-up in 1967 , the moderate , blinkered Foinavon held on to his unexpected lead all the way to the winning post , seven lonely fences later , to beat Honey End with Red Alligator , who won it next year , third .
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