Example sentences of "he [vb past] on to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount .
2 From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September .
3 Lord Romsey , of Hampshire , found himself issued with a £40 fixed penalty and a ‘ severe ticking-off ’ after he drove on to the hard shoulder to join the M271 near Southampton .
4 He climbed on to the high stool , acutely conscious of the heat of the stove and the growling dogs behind him .
5 As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him .
6 The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee .
7 When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key .
8 He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic .
9 He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop .
10 Exhausted , he collapsed on to the unmade bed , fell asleep , but still woke the next morning at four thirty .
11 In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year .
12 The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually .
13 Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes .
14 He went on to the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , for two years before poor eyesight ended plans for a naval career , and he returned to Eton .
15 The victim , who has not yet been named , died instantly when he fell on to the middle lane of an unlit section of the M25 between Merstham and Reigate , Surrey .
16 He slipped on to the cold floor .
17 When he emerged on to the vast concourse he saw Kuhlmann standing at the entrance to one of the platforms opposite the ticket office .
18 He filtered on to the dual carriageway , overtaking a haulage truck and a couple of slow-moving cars , always going back to the nearside lane .
19 Best had been the heir apparent ever since he burst on to the representative scene as the architect of the London Division 's remarkable 21–10 win over the touring Australians at Twickenham in '88 .
20 He held on to the other end , it went underneath him .
21 Sex is an animal quality which must somehow he pushed on to the other side of the great divide .
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