Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 2 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 3 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 4 | ‘ Am I to walk on to the stage at the Shield with it on my finger , and the whole audience thinking that I am a wife when I am none ? |
| 5 | It would be a waste of time for both of you to go on to an interview . |
| 6 | I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments . |
| 7 | And it has to be perfect before I shall allow you to go on to petit point . ’ |
| 8 | So you need a rich peasant economy to finance industrialization to provide the mechanization to enable you to go on to collectivization . |
| 9 | Every day this week we 've been printing colour pictures of the team captains and their strip for you to paste on to your chart . |
| 10 | I think it maybe has to be said that we we picked these figures , not because we wanted to talk about the figures , but simply to use them as for you to hang on to . |
| 11 | Talking of your first P-bass , what originally inspired you to get on to the instrument ? |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to get on to your divisional headquarters and ask them to organise a search of the moor in the neighbourhood of Jordan 's farm . |
| 13 | The beach start enables you to step on to your board without having to haul the sail out of the water . |
| 14 | The remaining five Fulmars which had led the Hurricanes in were to stay on the island , although the original plan called for them to fly on to Maleme ( Crete ) , where they were to assist the Fulmars of 805 Squadron in the defence of that island . |
| 15 | ‘ Reason tells me I do right to let you go , yet my heart urges me to hold on to you … ’ |
| 16 | Second , at the very tip of their abdomen they possess a hook-like structure which enables them to hold on to the shell . |
| 17 | Mr Milosevic is urging the Bosnian Serbs to sign the plan because , he says , it would allow them to hold on to almost all the territory they have won by force . |
| 18 | This might enable them to hold on to around 100 of their present 270 seats . |
| 19 | He received an internal phone call from Muldoon , who told him that McGillicuddy wanted him to go on to Dublin immediately . |
| 20 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 21 | The nuptial pads on a male frog 's feet enable him to grip on to the females tightly when mating . |
| 22 | Before we allow him to intrude on to my turf too far , I should set the whole business in its correct credit context . |
| 23 | That was Sarah who did the Works Skills for Women Course at Fast Forward and that 's now helped her to get on to some G C S E courses at college . |
| 24 | ‘ Only for as long as it took her to latch on to another driver , ’ Vitor said drily . |
| 25 | It was n't crucial at this stage to get her to step on to the glove repeatedly ; it was more important for her to develop the right attitude to the whole process . |
| 26 | His papers only instructed him to travel on to Edinburgh where he was to help train the next group of recruits who would take their places on the Western Front . |
| 27 | Many firms of estate agents are also surveyors , and it 's important to them to get on to building society panels to enjoy a good flow of valuation work . |
| 28 | JTR and I parted company at Rothesay ; he to go on to Arran on the Iona and me to zigzag over there via Wemyss Bay and Ardrossan ferries . |
| 29 | At the moment I 'm training a red-tailed buzzard , which is a much bigger bird , and its claws are strong enough to allow it to grip on to my glove , so this is n't so much of a problem . |
| 30 | Consequently ( Demski , 1976 and other authors ) it is inefficient for it to force on to the manager any general risk if this can be avoided , though the manager should still have some reward/penalty dependent upon his or her actions . |