Example sentences of "on to [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the Pigs were on to something about some holiday fund that disappeared — some scheme for sending kids in Homes on a holiday that people in a pub had contributed to — fraud , they called it . |
| 2 | If a limitation period has just been missed , one useful argument is the fact that it is possible to issue proceedings one day before limitation expires and then to hang on to them for four months before they are served . |
| 3 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 4 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 5 | For one of so gentle a character he could be extraordinarily defiant of gamekeepers , and threatening letters to my father passed on to him with added threats were not of the slightest avail . |
| 6 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 7 | Would she scream insults , or perhaps cling on to him for grim death and beg for another chance ? |
| 8 | He held on to me through another pain , and wiped my face . |
| 9 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Or perhaps you wanted to hold on to one for sentimental reasons ? ’ |
| 11 | Her fingers were digging hard at his back , pulling him on to her with each thrust . |
| 12 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 13 | I soon noticed myself rapidly approaching a fallen tree over the surface of the river and as I rushed towards it I clung on to it for dear life . |
| 14 | The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries . |
| 15 | By the next season 1923–24 , the outside-right position was Harry 's own — and he held on to it for another decade . |
| 16 | Very little built on to it at that stage . |
| 17 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 18 | The memes are being passed on to you in altered form . |