Example sentences of "on to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance .
2 What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ?
3 He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other
4 It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse .
5 ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’
6 Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger .
7 We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know .
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