Example sentences of "and [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 3 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 4 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 5 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 6 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 7 | Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard . |
| 8 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 9 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 10 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 11 | He said nothing and she went , with smooth , unflustered movements , to the couch and dropped on to the yielding cushions and prayed for Oliver to come and quickly . |
| 12 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
| 13 | Pipe the words START and FINISH on to the top left and bottom right squares , and then pipe numbers on to the squares in consecutive order . |
| 14 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 15 | Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag . |
| 16 | Most people 's income is taxed directly by their employers and handed on to the Inland Revenue , an arm of central government , under a system called Pay As You Earn ( PAYE ) . |
| 17 | This was on the first-floor landing , and opened on to the shared first-floor kitchen . |
| 18 | She retreated back downstairs , and climbed on to the mildewed sofa , hugging her knees up to her chin . |
| 19 | She pulled up and ran after the still-moving combine , grasped the rail with one finger and sprang on to the vertical steps . |
| 20 | We started out into the snow and stepped on to the ice-covered apron ; that soon took the look off Nathan 's face . |
| 21 | This originally stood in Warwick Lane , east London , and abutted on to the eastern side of Newgate Prison . |
| 22 | Then , assuming the visitor was given a guided tour of the manor , he would then leave the kitchen and find the WC directly opposite the front door ; just a WC , no bath , no wash-hand basin , no toilet-paper , no mod-cons ; if he did wish to ‘ spend a penny ’ , well , yesterday 's newspaper was cut neatly into 6 inch squares and nailed on to a convenient wall . |
| 23 | Rain was dripping through the roof in several places , falling with a recurrent plop and splash on to the wet floor-boards . |
| 24 | Charlie followed Mrs Shorrocks into Number 110 , joined her in the tiny kitchen and collapsed on to a wooden chair . |
| 25 | Behind the closed door of her bedroom , she pulled off her boots , threw her jacket on to a chair , and collapsed on to the single bed . |
| 26 | Then , tossing the towel to one side , she closed her eyes and collapsed on to the open sleeping-bag . |
| 27 | He flinched nervously as Buddie growled to gather phlegm into his throat , lifted the lid off the stove and spat on to the hot coals . |
| 28 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
| 29 | AFTER A couple of years on the indie circuit , Arista signed The Hollow Men , releasing their ‘ Cresta ’ album late last year , and it looked like these hard-working Leeds-based popsters were ready to step up a league and move on to a new , higher profile . |
| 30 | By the next day , hundreds of Chinese students gathered at the Nanjing campuses calling for the African students to be punished and marched on to the municipal offices . |