Example sentences of "[pron] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 2 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 3 | When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats . |
| 4 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 5 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 6 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 7 | When I knit a stocking stitch tension square , instead of marking the 21st stitch on each side of centre 0 on the 30th row , I transfer these stitches at the beginning of the swatch , placing them on to needle number 22 on each side and pushing the empty 21st needles to non-working position . |
| 8 | Rufus takes them on to step two : ‘ So he going to send a search party , is n't he ? |
| 9 | Every station sent in the reports in code and we collected them and sent them on to Bomber Command Headquarters . |
| 10 | Laura found enormous fulfilment in discovering old print references and Brian Jones , a soft-spoken , young artist who had recently joined her design team in Carno , proved adept at transferring them on to fabric . |
| 11 | The beads , sew them on to fabric |
| 12 | If there is an outstanding success , he 'll get them on to television and into the national press . |
| 13 | I I 'm pretty sure that that 's so , Chair , and you d when you say you 're recruiting erm , young people from school , training or , erm , taking them on to engineering vacancies . |
| 14 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 15 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 16 | ‘ He really turned me on to geography . |
| 17 | That should change this year , for in the first innings of Lincolnshire 's match against Norfolk , Love put himself on to bowl his offbreaks and took 6 for 18 . |
| 18 | We need somebody on to collect glasses . |
| 19 | Sergeant before I take you on to deal with the briefing itself , I just want to go back and ask you one thing . |
| 20 | ‘ But it 's within yourself , what drives you on to win championships and cups . |
| 21 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 22 | leading one on to worship |
| 23 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 24 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 25 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 26 | There are times , however , when even that motivation is not enough to push him on to success and the Spartathlon is the perfect example . |
| 27 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 28 | His success projected him on to Channel 4 's comedy series Packet of Three and its follow-up , Packing Them In , which starts this month . |
| 29 | Instead , David pointed out landmarks they passed and eventually Julia led him on to talk about his childhood holidays at Fiesole . |
| 30 | However , rather than getting upset about this it spurs her on to try harder to show that they are worth watching . |