Example sentences of "[vb pp] on to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought . |
| 2 | Others were painted on to a dry plaster surface . |
| 3 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 4 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 5 | Some 4,000 media workers covering the conference were based in an exhibition hall 2 km away , where the proceedings were relayed on to a giant screen . |
| 6 | The DT 2600 E has about as many features as can be squeezed on to a hot air gun . |
| 7 | One was doomed when a bucket of coal was tipped on to a blazing fire and the flames eroded the dust covering , ate at the brittle papier-mâché , flickered at the softness of the plastic bag . |
| 8 | Modernity is defined against pre-modernity , reason against irrationality and superstition , and this divide is mapped on to a symbolic geography that counterposes the West and its Orient . |
| 9 | This is then mapped on to a geometric domain which contains all the graphical description of the object in CAD terms . |
| 10 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 11 | A couple of determined tries from Gabriel , a solidly-built scrum-half , put them 10 points clear , before Finnie , with one conversion and three late penalties moved on to a personal total of 17 . |
| 12 | Nikos 's thoughts moved on to a different tack . |
| 13 | The patient was moved on to a life-support machine and another set of X-rays was ordered in case the first ones had not revealed internal injuries caused by the car accident . |
| 14 | At less exalted levels of society , economies had to be made ; often many subjects were crammed on to a single plate . |
| 15 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 16 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 17 | Largely because the Moon is acted on to a significant extent by both the Sun and the Earth its orbital elements are subject to relatively rapid changes . |
| 18 | The Colour badge is stitched on to a large piece of scarlet cloth matching the material of the jacket . |
| 19 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 20 | Each team had a couple of scoring opportunities and a few short corners but the game dragged on to a scoreless draw . |
| 21 | The inter-war German democracy was precarious precisely because it was grafted on to a social order that had failed to create the very basic social and political conditions that would allow a democratic system to flourish , but also because while German expansion in the east had been halted , the drive to the east was still seen as a tantalising solution to all of Germany 's problems . |
| 22 | Then , assuming the visitor was given a guided tour of the manor , he would then leave the kitchen and find the WC directly opposite the front door ; just a WC , no bath , no wash-hand basin , no toilet-paper , no mod-cons ; if he did wish to ‘ spend a penny ’ , well , yesterday 's newspaper was cut neatly into 6 inch squares and nailed on to a convenient wall . |
| 23 | The tensions and anxieties which are inevitably entailed when a more or less racially homogeneous society becomes multi-racial are displaced on to a solitary figure — the leering bootboy . |
| 24 | Sometimes the wet ink which is sprayed on to a horizontal board can spread out sideways , which results in a reasonably-uniform layer in the middle of the board , but an excessively thick border of ink around the edges of the board . |
| 25 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 26 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
| 27 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 28 | She laughed , and showed me how one of the windows led on to a tiny balcony and a view over ancient pasture-land ; across the lane spread the branches of a great oak tree . |
| 29 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 30 | One tool commonly ignored by many sedimentary petrographers is a Shadowmaster® , or similar equipment , where a thin section is projected on to a ground glass screen to produce an image ( a shadowgraph ) . |