Example sentences of "[vb past] on to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 2 | The talk got on to quantum , eerie |
| 3 | We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too . |
| 4 | Erm so Elizabeth got on to Aristocrats so what , what happened ? |
| 5 | Did n't you even got on to frogs and rabbits ? |
| 6 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 7 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 8 | Then I got on to James again . " |
| 9 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 10 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 11 | For two days the children camped out in the hospital waiting-room as their father clung on to life . |
| 12 | However , as Doe 's Cabinet and military chiefs deserted him and fled abroad , Doe tenaciously clung on to power , besieged in the executive mansion with his Israeli-trained presidential guard . |
| 13 | Startled staff dived for cover as the liquid dung splashed against outside walls , whizzed through windows and splattered on to desks , chairs , computers and carpets . |
| 14 | Philip then returned to Paris , while Richard , keeping abreast of him , rode on to Normandy . |
| 15 | Next morning , with no sign of the Earl , they rode on to Berwick . |
| 16 | This led on to contracts for shipping grain to Flanders . |
| 17 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 18 | Tears brimmed on to Maggie 's cheeks and she brushed them away hurriedly . |
| 19 | And he once passed on to BitC an invitation he had received requesting him and the Princess to open the conference of a Brent Women 's Association , with a note saying , ‘ Do you think I should do it ? |
| 20 | Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers . |
| 21 | For Gertrude Jekyll the arts and crafts creed of unity of the arts was not just an artistic concept but fundamental to her special art and skills in home-making which she passed on to Lutyens , inspiring him to build not just houses but homes . |
| 22 | Palmerston received a letter from T. L. Donaldson ( 1795–1885 ) asking to be a competitor , which Palmerston passed on to Hall . |
| 23 | And so , refreshed , we passed on to Hong Kong . |
| 24 | You mean the private detective 's report and the tape recording which Mrs Abberley said you passed on to Mr Fairfax ? ’ |
| 25 | In fact , his intense interest , an interest which he passed on to Engels and other revolutionary Marxists , is neither accidental nor peripheral : it is one indication of the difference between Marx 's thought and that of other revolutionaries , whether his predecessors or his contemporaries . |
| 26 | He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne . |
| 27 | We drifted ashore and the bow whispered on to sand . |
| 28 | Recovering his balance , Tal hopped on to Tabitha 's leg . |
| 29 | He tricks his Auschwitz guards just as , in the first instalment of this story published in 1986 , he regularly hopped on to trams reserved for German officers in the Polish town where he was virtually the sole surviving Jew . |
| 30 | He moved on to construction , the stock markets and property development . |