Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 2 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 3 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 4 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 5 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 6 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 7 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 8 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 9 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 10 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 11 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 12 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 13 | Take great care not to apply too much adhesive as it will show through or seep out once the glass is pressed on to the picture . |
| 14 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 15 | The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point . |
| 16 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 17 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 18 | This is available as a white powder which is mixed with water and painted on to the concrete . |
| 19 | Lucifer pointed out to Eve the forbidden apple on the flat tree painted on to the back panel of the cart . |
| 20 | York skyline painted on to the car by artist Paula MacArthur . |
| 21 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 22 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 23 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 24 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 25 | Picking up her tray without the fruit and cake she had planned to take , Belinda left the cafeteria line with tight lips and stiffened shoulders , but , before she had gone very far , Deana had caught up to her , grabbing her upper arm roughly and painfully so that her hot dinner spilled on to the tray and splashed her wrist . |
| 26 | Just as she reached it , the light from a lantern spilled on to the square , and she saw a man enter the place behind it . |
| 27 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 28 | Kate had somehow knocked over her cup , and tea spilled on to the tray , splashing her skirt . |
| 29 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 30 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |