Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 2 | All of his energies were devoted to bringing the conversation round to the topic of food and drink , but Donald , once he had explained , or failed to explain , the Madonna Complex , moved swiftly on to what he described as his problem , which turned out to be law and order . |
| 3 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 4 | Waves crashed deafeningly on to pebbles beneath . |
| 5 | She closed the door with a firmness she did not feel then sank gratefully on to her bed , dry-mouthed and suddenly cold . |
| 6 | We moved quickly on to what is normally the second lesson , snow plough turns , and then the third when thankfully you can use the rope tow . |
| 7 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 8 | Intrigued , he moved forward on to the balcony and peered down cautiously . |
| 9 | Mark sagged forward on to his desk , straightened up , and dragged himself from the brink of sleep . |
| 10 | Cedric sank happily on to the tattered hearthrug at his feet and gazed up adoringly at his new master . |
| 11 | As each group of rigs arrived they moved quietly on to the sloping cobbled ramp , which in times past had been used by a civilian ferry , and with a hiss of hydraulics opened out . |
| 12 | I put my candle down on the shelf , and dropped thankfully on to the bed . |
| 13 | The grenade dropped right on to the cab floor in front of Rex . |
| 14 | The sun , incandescent orange , dropped slowly on to pier 56 and made the buttes of mid-town Manhattan shine like fool 's gold . |
| 15 | Lord Denning observed : ‘ In the OLA 1957 the word occupier is used [ as ] … a convenient word to denote a person who had a sufficient degree of control over premises to put him under a duty of care towards those who came lawfully on to the premises . ’ |
| 16 | Johnny Cooper on the other hand , says that they drove straight on to the airfield . |
| 17 | Forrester has not been playing much in the reserves but came straight on to the bench after his injury . |
| 18 | The dirigibles had drifted away and the morning sky was clear and cloudless above the Butcher Building as the long black air-car dropped silently on to the roof . |
| 19 | The cut-out sleeve flopped neatly on to one side of the table . |
| 20 | Slowly his eyes closed and his head dropped quietly on to his chest . |
| 21 | The inner cities came seriously on to the political agenda and Michael Heseltine made a brave attempt to introduce new policies to tackle the undoubted deprivation . |
| 22 | In the added heat of the fire beads of sweat welled on her forehead , rolled down the furrows of her face and , gaining momentum , dropped weightily on to the ground . |
| 23 | The best firms favoured continuous , incremental product improvement , with new developments passed rapidly on to customers . |
| 24 | He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am . |
| 25 | Their offices faced right on to our living quarters and they were always staring at us . |
| 26 | Bawiti was a village of crooked streets and blank-walled houses which faced inward on to courtyards . |
| 27 | Not totally sure she actually wanted to illuminate what she already knew she was going to find , she snapped down the switch and stared disagreeably at the glistening drops that plopped relentlessly on to the dresser . |
| 28 | He was saddling a fat brown cob and I stared as he led the little animal out , climbed stiffly on to a box and mounted . |
| 29 | Until the mid-19th century , these huge vaulted spaces ( presently subdivided ) opened directly on to the Thames , giving Somerset House something of the character of a great palazzo along the Grand Canal . |
| 30 | It was handy since it opened directly on to the parking slots for office staff , much prized and intrigued over . |