Example sentences of "then [vb pp] on to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 2 | As a mere formality , Minton , like others , was then reappointed on to the staff . |
| 3 | He enveloped her mouth in one last , languid taking , then rolled on to the pillow beside her . |
| 4 | The interview then moved on to the consideration of the Head of Department 's departmental work , but kept drifting back to his ambition for wider experience . |
| 5 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 6 | Captain Swan was the trainer on that occasion and Charlie then moved on to the Kevin Prendergast yard where he had to give up Flat racing because of a sharp rise in his weight following an accident . |
| 7 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 8 | The service 's interest began with his trade with Russia , then moved on to the Iran-Iraq war and the build-up to the Gulf crisis . |
| 9 | The frogs are collected and cooked over a fire until the poisonous , milky skin secretions appear ; these are then scraped on to the weapons . |
| 10 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 11 | He grinned , blew Graham a kiss , waved one hand , then stepped on to the crossing during a lull in the traffic . |
| 12 | The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association . |
| 13 | Kadi Ayatholugh , muderris in Aghras ( Agras , now Atabey ) , then passed on to the service of Molla Khidr Bey ( Hizir Bey : d. 863/1459 ) -later to become the first kadi of Istanbul but at this time muderris at the Sultan medrese ( the medrese of Mehmed I ) in Bursa — becoming his . |
| 14 | There is no contact-tracing as such , but , because it is felt that most of the problem is due to prostitutes ( an unlikely truth in any European country ) , the examining doctor can fill in a form which is then passed on to the police who will undertake a search . |
| 15 | The leaf tracing is then pasted on to the assembly so that the centre vein coincides with the join . |
| 16 | The grasses are woven together with cotton to form a mat , which is then bonded on to a paper backing . |
| 17 | I tugged and lugged the dinghy until it was sliding backwards down the bank , and then held on to the painter , digging my heels in , leaning back to prevent too fast and splashy a launch . |
| 18 | Upper Halling had its own ice cream made at the Black Boy by Jesse Crowhurst and Ernie Pankhurst , this would be made at weekends then loaded on to a hand card and pushed either up to Red Kill or to Birling Bank , where they would sell approx. 5–6 gallons on a Sunday . |