Example sentences of "have [vb pp] on to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
| 2 | While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe . |
| 3 | Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 . |
| 4 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 5 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 6 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 7 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 8 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 9 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 10 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 11 | He might have got on to the motorway . ’ |
| 12 | He may have shimmied on to the scene a little late , but watch out for his name on the smoochy compilations for Christmas 1993 . |
| 13 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 14 | She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 15 | None of the earlier owners seem to have held on to the property for very long , for in 1647 , it was acquired by the Earl of Pembroke , then shortly afterwards , it was sold to Lord Pawlet , who is reported to have entertained General Fairfax at Chiswick House , on a number of occasions . |
| 16 | The field is led by Miró with a rise of 1090% one of the few artists to have held on to the gains of the 1988–90 period . |
| 17 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 18 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 19 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 20 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 21 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 22 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 23 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 24 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 25 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 26 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 27 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 28 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 29 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 30 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |