Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easy to sway the emotions by showing monkeys with their brains cut open , genetically stunted pigs or smoking beagles , less so to drag on someone suffering from a vile disease and say ‘ this person will die unless we keep on chopping up small furry creatures . ’ |
| 2 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | Too shocked , too intensely angry to speak , she contemptuously passed the document to him with a hand that shook so much that he steadied it with his , an expression close to pity on his face as he carefully extracted the paper from her numb fingers . |
| 4 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 5 | Track descends ; 150 yds before bottom of slope , where track bends to the left and immediately before copse begins on right , cross ditch on right and bear half left on other side , keeping close to copse on your left . |
| 6 | Kelly walked over quickly to Shine On 's box to check that he was unharmed . |
| 7 | It might have been dubious to have had any of the characters holding the scissors , but because it was the child of the foursome doing it , that made it an even bigger mistake , which I accepted , putting it down totally to inexperience on my behalf . |
| 8 | Mrs Stych wrung her hands behind the reporter 's back , and wished passionately she could run home to Mother on the pig farm ; she longed suddenly for the smell of hens and milk , for a place where nobody had to keep up appearances or be other than what they were . |
| 9 | Forecasts for 6am to midnight on Monday June 14 General situation : Rain at first , some bright spells . |
| 10 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 11 | Recovery in the UK gathered momentum during the second quarter as the UK portfolio continued to respond positively to action on rates and operating costs . |
| 12 | His beautiful and adored mother quickly appeared from the sitting-room and hugged him nearly to death on the doorstep . |
| 13 | We 're gon na move on now to feedback on progress of virtually every and related document . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm glad that child 's coming here to dinner on Sunday , ’ Eddie Hogan said . |
| 15 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | P. On vert , sleep banks , maybe to tail on mini ramps . |
| 17 | Ianthe was disconcerted , even a little shocked , to see the bottles of milk still standing outside the door of her uncle 's Mayfair rectory when she arrived there to luncheon on Quinquagesima Sunday . |
| 18 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 19 | For this reason , we will not attempt an international analysis but focus closer to home on the situation in UK schools . |
| 20 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 21 | In partnership with the Staple Inn Actuarial Society , we look forward to building on the success of the first year 's issues and to the increasing use of the magazine as a means of effective two-way communications . |
| 22 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 23 | I used to look forward to commentary on a Sat. afternoon , but it seems such a tie as Ipswich at home can not even produce a goal never mind a win . |
| 24 | Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street . |
| 25 | Insignia is believed to have spoken informally to Sun on the matter . |
| 26 | Insignia is believed to have spoken informally to Sun on the matter . |
| 27 | There 's lots of time too to practice on single handed Toppers — an ideal way to gather confidence and experience . |
| 28 | Although the shuttle has returned safely to Earth on each of its six nights so far , the orbiter managed on its most recent mission to nudge the tracking and data-relay satellite it was carrying into the wrong position . |
| 29 | The US space shuttle Discovery returned safely to Earth on Dec. 9 after a seven-day mission which included the deployment of a top secret US Air Force reconnaissance DOD-1 satellite and unclassified experiments with an Army laser receiver and US Navy camera system . |