Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 2 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 3 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 4 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 5 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 6 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 7 | The court was told she had ignored a Give Way sign at a junction and had driven on to the main road at about 40 mph . |
| 8 | The civil population had been summarily evacuated ; a few enterprising and courageous camp-followers , evading the grasp of the gendarmes , had clung on to the last , but eventually all that remained were three elderly townsmen permitted to run a canteen for the troops . |
| 9 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 10 | All of London had poured on to the great open waste , heads craned towards the stake on the brow of a small hill just next to a three-armed gibbet . |
| 11 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |