Example sentences of "[vb past] on to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 2 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 3 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 4 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 5 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 6 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 7 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 8 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 9 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 10 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 11 | Once inside , she sank on to the quilted bench opposite the marble vanity and stared at her reflection . |
| 12 | Then with a sigh she sank on to the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , feeling the soft springs of the mattress bounce beneath her weight . |
| 13 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 14 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 15 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 16 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 17 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 18 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 19 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 20 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 21 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 22 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 23 | The conversation moved on to the human habit of colour-mapping . |
| 24 | The field station consists of a modern Ann Exe built on to the old coast guard station . |
| 25 | She edged tentatively into the lee of the house to hide in a deep shadow and bumped into a broken rainwater pipe which smacked on to the concrete patio . |
| 26 | I dropped on to the wet doorstep , worn out and hopeless , prepared to die . |
| 27 | They came on to the golden sand and stood in silence , winds of light moving over them plainly , despite the brightness of the evening sunshine . |
| 28 | Primary Health Care , understood as an approach to health care going beyond the medical model to include the promotive , rehabilitative and educational dimensions of health care in addition to curative/treatment dimensions , came on to the international stage in 1978 at the conference of Alma Ata . |
| 29 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 30 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |