Example sentences of "[noun] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | And that arrogant devil Christie Goldsborough who 'd caused the trouble , so far as Frizingley was concerned at any rate , by egging Ben on to cut the wages at Braithwaite 's mill . |
2 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
3 | People who dangle wires or ropes on to power lines to see what happens are playing with fire . ’ |
4 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
5 | When we were all off-duty of an evening , Rosemary and I would get ourselves done up in our civvies ( strictly forbidden ) , and with our greatcoats and hats on to fool the eagle eye of the duty NCO in the Waaf Picquet Post , totter down the drive to await the arrival of the boys in the car . |
6 | Because of the limited visibility at the top of the hill a new access directly from Drum Brae Park on to Drum Brae could not be recommended . |
7 | We were not to see the famous ‘ stoop ’ dive on to prey after all . |
8 | It relies on the preferential absorption on to clay minerals of an ultra-violet sensitive dye . |
9 | Coloured shells with white lips ( fig.11 ) and coloured enclaves are often found in habitats where mussels predominate , but coloured dog-whelks can be found in the total absence of the mussels-for instance , around Minehead in West Somerset ( plate 2 ) Moore 's transfers the other way round , white shells on to mussel shores , did not induce any colour change . |
10 | At the sideboard he crashed two covers on to silver dishes . |
11 | Tap Right with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll right 1/3 Of a window at a time |
12 | Tap Left with the Scroll Lock ON to scroll left 1/3 Of a window at a time |
13 | The final whistle came with Rayners Lane holding on to win by three goals to nil . |
14 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
15 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
16 | To wit , the kind of speed on to man and ball and to the breakdown which would in itself render it a great deal more difficult for the All Blacks to make the Lions ' pack look heavy-footed to the point of statuesque . |
17 | There are plans to put this programme on to videotape , so it can be shown to customers locally without the need for lengthy and expensive trips to the UK . |
18 | There 's some artists out there who do it because they have to get it off their chest and get their songs on to tape . |
19 | If your dry garden borders on to paving , many of these plants will spill over and even colonise the cracks , softening up hard lines and giving a mellow feel . |
20 | Although several European countries have legal controls on such activities , in the U.K. the law has not been extended in this way , though there may be legal remedies in some cases for those who believe they have been harmed by the use to which the surreptitiously collected information has been put : if , for example , unauthorised entry on to property has occurred , or if there has been breach of confidence or copyright , or if conspiracy to commit a crime , civil wrong , public mischief or some outrageously immoral act can be proved . |
21 | Or for after dinner chocolates , flavour melted chocolate with a little liqueur or flavouring essences , drop blobs on to paper and leave to set . |
22 | Doctor Who , especially nowadays , is the type of programme they put fairly new Designers on to test their abilities . |
23 | We 'd dress up in our party things ; just put a little pinny on to start ; unpack the things from Fortnum 's , put them on to plates . |
24 | He switched the machine on to receiver mode . |
25 | For anyone who does a lot of knitting , the initial time spent learning how to use the program will be more than compensated for , because once you have saved your work on to disk , the same garment shape and / or stitch pattern can be used time and time again . |
26 | Hook on to wildlife — specific examples . |
27 | Experts were divided on the cause , with some blaming the hordes of pollen beetles that descended from fields of oil seed rape on to garden crops , other believing the hot , dry weather caused a change in the development of the reproductive system of the plants . |
28 | Before his eyes was the ‘ Vehicle Condition Monitor ’ , a dot-matrix display that gave warning of any problem from handbrake on to brake failure . |
29 | Sabine put her chicken casserole on to cook , then made up her bed . |
30 | ‘ Switch the engine on to charge . ’ |