Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 2 | Erm so Elizabeth got on to Aristocrats so what , what happened ? |
| 3 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |
| 4 | ‘ We are just building this up at the moment , ’ Gerwyn explains , ‘ so we sell locally to shops . |
| 5 | It pays to examine all gutter brackets and clips to ensure no water will drip on to walls . |
| 6 | Her wig is made up of bottle tops , left over from ordinary twentieth-century life , trodden into the dirt underfoot , pressed on to noticeboards . |
| 7 | Startled staff dived for cover as the liquid dung splashed against outside walls , whizzed through windows and splattered on to desks , chairs , computers and carpets . |
| 8 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 9 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 10 | This led on to contracts for shipping grain to Flanders . |
| 11 | Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers . |
| 12 | In North 's briefing on the contras , given widely to donors and politicians when he was at the NSC , the emphasis was striking . |
| 13 | We 'll have a look at decimals because you need to need to know what you 're doing with decimals but decimals are fractions and until you I mean I think you 're very happy with fractions now you 're probably ready to go on to decimals . |
| 14 | Many sixth-formers , of course , left a maintained school to go on to universities , but only 10 per cent of these went to Oxford or Cambridge , compared with nearly half of the university-bound sixth-formers from the Public Schools . |
| 15 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 16 | There is an urge to recapture the missing person in some way by hanging on to memories , and treasures . |
| 17 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 18 | We may be hanging on to relationships which reinforce low levels of self-esteem . |
| 19 | But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes . |
| 20 | In 1986 tax liability was abolished on gifts made outright to individuals or put into trusts for children , as long as the donor survives seven years from the date of the gift . |
| 21 | He tricks his Auschwitz guards just as , in the first instalment of this story published in 1986 , he regularly hopped on to trams reserved for German officers in the Polish town where he was virtually the sole surviving Jew . |
| 22 | A thin layer already covered the frost-hardened ground , and clung delicately to tree-branches , clothes-lines and back-garden bric-à-brac . |
| 23 | So the discussion got down to practicalities and planning , a new keenness evident . |
| 24 | ‘ I expect Lubor is busy beavering away back in his office ? ’ she asked as a warm-up question before she got down to basics — and immediately wished that she had n't because at once Ven 's expression darkened , and as he raised an aristocratic eyebrow she knew instantly that all affability was gone . |
| 25 | Denmark 's a prison and he 'd rather live in a nutshell ; some shadow-play about the nature of ambition , which never got down to cases , and finally one direct question which might have led somewhere , and led in fact to his illuminating claim to tell a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 26 | After much discussion Angel got down to details . |
| 27 | The exclusion of parts of the centre " let or constructed or adapted for letting " is fair and reasonable , but quite often an exclusion will relate only to parts of the centre " not let on the same terms as this lease " which could result in the occupying tenants paying part of the service charges for unlet premises . |
| 28 | The John and Ceridwen Hughes Uwchaled award is given annually to individuals in recognition of outstanding service through the Welsh language , to young people over the age of 11 outside formal education . |
| 29 | Yeah , then it goes down to orgies or whatever what they are has any of that worked ? |
| 30 | From the terrace , a broad flight of central steps led down to lawns and formal flowerbeds . |