Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locke attempted to explain epistemic appearances in terms of sensations leading so quickly on to judgements that we mistake the judgements for sensations . |
| 2 | This systems then bring all this together graphically on to a computer screen — which can be the hotel 's back-office system to avoid duplication . |
| 3 | British viewers of Manhattan Cable are by now familiar with Robin Byrd , whose late-night TV show consists of her reclining in a string bikini , a microphone clipped somewhat clumsily on to one breast , exhorting viewers to ‘ lie back and get comfortable ’ while various folk bare their pimply bottoms and everything else in an on camera strip show . |
| 4 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 5 | Therefore , in the true deserts one is thrown back more strongly on to past climatic conditions to explain obviously water-formed features . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , hell , give me a chance ! ’ protested Peter , hanging more tightly on to Sarella 's shoulders . |
| 7 | This threw her more passionately on to me for solace and support , but I was losing patience — I did n't know how to cope . |
| 8 | To give Londoners the range and quality of rail services enjoyed by Parisians will cost a great deal of money , but this money will have to be spent if our public transport is not to slip once again on to the mad downhill spiral of reduced investment , reduced service , reduced passengers , reduced investment and so on . |
| 9 | This resulted in a furious argument between Clinton and Jackson which , while appearing to threaten Clinton 's level of support among black voters , had the immediate effect of reinvigorating his campaign by propelling him once again on to the front pages of the country 's newspapers . |
| 10 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 11 | Those men , balding men with families , would have written their reports with a knowing smile , omitting anything too indelicate , and the contents would have been passed on to Urquhart 's boss , and then probably on to Spittals . |
| 12 | First , it seems clear that although the wide range of credit types which are available should let people easily find and use their best-value choice , lack of knowledge and the very widespread practice of tacking a particular credit arrangement almost automatically on to a particular shopping transaction combine to make rational choice of credit relatively rare . |
| 13 | She fell — first to her knees , then forwards on to her hands . |
| 14 | You see well the point was when you pick 'em up erm we had a sm we had a big boat , what we called hanger boat , a very heavy boat and that used to have a wooden so therefore we used to pull it up by hand and pull it ove on a little barrel with a hand power that 's what we used to do and once we got the anchor in board we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then rerun it again right on to the mud and on the anchor again . |
| 15 | Leave Thun by the Berngate , turning right into the Steffisburgstrasse and right again shortly on to the Goldiwilstrasse . |
| 16 | The objects in Braque 's painting like the Still Life with Fruit Dish ( Moderna Museet , Stockholm ) , which is roughly contemporary with the Compotier , are more faceted , and the whole surface is broken up in terms of the same angular but subtly modulated planes which carry the eye back into a limited depth and then forward again on to the picture plane in a series of gentle declivities and projections . |
| 17 | ‘ However the discussion happily turned very soon on to the question of procedure , ’ Amery recorded , ‘ and the desirability , in which we all concurred , of the statement being so framed as to avoid our being pushed into a general election this autumn . ’ |