Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got Colin on to them . ’ |
| 2 | Body position and movement also play an important part — although the fact that turns latch on to each other successfully in telephone conversations seems to suggest that these factors , like gaze , are perhaps not as important as might at first appear . |
| 3 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 4 | Bringing data on to one or more common sets of areas allows much fuller use of the information . |
| 5 | Those of Gide 's travel journals published as Amyntas are even more revealing of this process whereby loss of self becomes a discovery of self ; both selves , the centred and the dispersed , being kept alive , both being necessary for the lyrical , unorthodox Western narrative which Gide maps on to the African landscape and his own illicit sexuality within it . |
| 6 | As Ilse happily slipped out of her thin white overall , Ingrid noticed the audience tossing money on to a plate which was being passed around . |
| 7 | Places are not restricted to locals ; students who are willing to undertake a journey many still be successful in gaining entry on to this stimulating and imaginative course . |
| 8 | Samuel Bamford remembered winding cotton on to bobbins for his weaver uncle as " work of cramping , confining and boring nature " . |
| 9 | A coroner has recorded verdicts of accidental death on a family of three killed when their car crashed head on into a tanker . |
| 10 | The pensioner , from Leeds , died when his maroon FSO car crashed head on with a van on the A64 Malton bypass in North Yorkshire . |
| 11 | The drift had become a tunnel of overgrowth that dripped water on to the roof of the van . |
| 12 | But distinguishing why changes take place is problematic before we have the evidence , as in Jonson 's case , of an author wishing to impose authority on to a text . |
| 13 | He helped Huw on to his feet . |
| 14 | You could also pipe stripes on to the children 's clothing if liked . |
| 15 | Well , we do our best or try to pass people on to other people who would know the answer . |
| 16 | There is no air or gravity , which is what holds people on to things . |
| 17 | Cornelius helped Tuppe on to a stool and found one for himself . |
| 18 | It 'll screw drive on to a flat surface . |
| 19 | There are , however , several situations in which the Commission is bound to pass information on to the competition authorities of member states . |
| 20 | But it dealt only with wordings addressed to trustees , requesting them or otherwise encouraging them to pass property on to beneficiaries . |
| 21 | When she returned to the room with the salted hot water , Frank and May between them had lifted Andrew on to the bed , and there he was propped up and breathing very heavily now . |
| 22 | If your record starts to pick up air play and get reviewed just after three weeks , it may be worth keeping your plugger and press officer on for a bit longer . |
| 23 | When James asked his brother Nicholas for-a turn on his new bike , Nicholas got off and helped James on to the bike — but his mother made no comment , and James rode off without a word of thanks . |
| 24 | She helped Tamar on to the bed and , as she removed her shoes , there was a tap on the door . |
| 25 | They 've just added time on to all the journeys . |
| 26 | Delaney turned the already hosing gun on to the nearest . |
| 27 | ‘ By the way , ’ he continued as Evans fetched the coats from a cupboard , helped Morgan on with his black overcoat , ‘ your running expenses here are astronomic . |
| 28 | That vast organization is as amorphous and as difficult to impose discipline on as the legislature ; from the most senior to some quite junior levels , there are many opportunities for bureaucrats to undermine and defeat a president 's purposes . |
| 29 | My son has trodden grease on to our concrete doorstep . |
| 30 | Using a single prong transfer tool , lift the two long strands of weaving yarn on to the selected needles . |