Example sentences of "then [verb] on to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later stages , cottage and craft industries were moved into factories , which then led on to the development of ‘ machinofacture ’ ( mechanised production ) through technological innovation . |
| 2 | It then goes on to the Shoulder of Mutton Hill , noted for its flower rich grassland . |
| 3 | It then goes on to the village of Colton and the Trent Valley . |
| 4 | Possibly well no , cos they , because it then goes on to the rain in heaven , I was going to say , maybe send the rain |
| 5 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 6 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 7 | It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes . |
| 8 | She comes back across the room , punches me playfully in the chest , then flops on to the sofa . |
| 9 | He enveloped her mouth in one last , languid taking , then rolled on to the pillow beside her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 12 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 13 | If you 're not gon na sit straight then hold on to the computer ! |
| 14 | This was followed by a film of a mediaeval banquet at which the guests , after much lusty eating and drinking , undressed one another at a leisurely pace , then climbed on to the refectory table for a general post , to the accompaniment on the sound track of much wheezing and grunting . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 16 | Make a custard with the milk , sugar and beaten egg yolks , by heating the milk and sugar , then pouring on to the egg yolks , stirring constantly . |
| 17 | How can viruses induce cells to enter the cycle of rapid multiplication that then leads on to the development of a tumour ? |
| 18 | The current development of CAD procedures has so far been directed towards providing a complete geometric description of an object initially , and then moving on to the generation of manufacturing instructions ( see Figure 1.8 ) . |
| 19 | Vic hesitated , then sprang on to the filing cabinet . |
| 20 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 21 | Then coming on to the end of Street next door was a milliners , now that nobody knows what they are today Miss the name was and then coming across Street to the other side was which was a drapers , and next coming down was Smiths the butcher 's shop , and next to that was the grocers , following on down there was the ironmonger , then there was the newspaper , and you come down to the White Hart erm then we come to the White Hart |
| 22 | The Colonel will first visit the sub-unit guarding the Signals Regiment based at Ayios Nikolaos , and then go on to the sub-unit at Dhekelia . |
| 23 | But when stuff came down the dock to people off , on to a boat , would that be stored in a warehouse first and then go on to the boat or would it be |
| 24 | He stumbled then fell on to the track , his scream silenced abruptly as he disappeared beneath the screeching wheels . |
| 25 | ‘ The roof restoration began in 1982 and we then went on to the rest of the building repainting emblems throughout the length of the station , ’ he said . |
| 26 | He then went on to the University of Leipzig where he stayed for four years , except for an interlude in Berlin of eighteen months . |
| 27 | When you claim Income Support , the DHSS will also give you a Housing Benefit claim form , which they will then pass on to the council . |
| 28 | He finds that he is being offered a simple trade-off : a comfortable job as a stock-checker if he will provide incriminating information about himself which the Maltster can then pass on to the Party . |
| 29 | He grinned , blew Graham a kiss , waved one hand , then stepped on to the crossing during a lull in the traffic . |
| 30 | 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 . |