Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pron] on to the " in BNC.

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1 Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water .
2 It was just that erm the other varieties around were competing too heavily against it so they thought what 's the point of passing it on to the children .
3 Yeah well we 've got a little antique box a jewellery box and it 's embossed the pattern round it , and the pattern round it is a boar hunt and it 's beautiful , there 's a little boar galloping his heart out with horsemen after him with spears and he 's all the way round the box and I thought of adding him on to the copper kettle you know as engraved all round the outside .
4 ‘ I told him we were thinking of putting someone on to the story , and needed to know if it was worth following up .
5 It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball .
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