Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 2 | At zero six hundred hours the following morning Captain Trentham gave them a full briefing : they were to be transported by ship to Boulogne , they learned , and after ten days ' further training they would be expected to march on to Etaples , where they would join their regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Danvers Hamilton DSO , who , they were assured , was preparing for a massive assault on the German defences . |
| 3 | The time has now come to move on to more common diseases . ’ |
| 4 | We have signed a treaty to agree to that , but we have not just retained Polaris , with its enormous fire-power ; we have now decided to go on to Trident that has even greater firepower than Polaris . |
| 5 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 6 | The monotheistic forms of religion are the higher , for they more clearly and purely bring the God-consciousness to expression , ‘ and all others are related to them as subordinate forms , from which men are destined to pass on to those higher ones ’ . |
| 7 | Could metal ions be made to stick on to the outside of the fullerene football ? |
| 8 | After five successful years , the two stars John Thaw and Kevin Whately have decided to move on to new things . |
| 9 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 10 | They went to Laos , Cambodia , but by the time they had arrived in Katmandu Sharp had decided to head on to London . |
| 11 | Of late , though , after his meetings with Eleanor , he had had to go on to his third level of fantasy . |
| 12 | That 's what we 've got to go on to . |
| 13 | See basically what you 're talking about is , you know when you close somebody , and I 've got to come on to this , because this is the , this is the key to selling deals . |
| 14 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 15 | So we 're looking at it first , I I think in the end , there are schemes that we 've got to put on to the back burner , or the , until such times Lincoln develops further , and there is further development . |
| 16 | If some measure of upright posture is possible the hand , originally evolved to hold on to trees , can also be used to hold on to sticks , stones , tools and artefacts . |
| 17 | so er we 've got to hang on to it |
| 18 | In 1967 he wrote : ‘ Human beings will become so used to being crushed together that when they are on their own , they will suffer withdrawal symptoms : ‘ Doctor — I 've got to get on to a crowded train soon or I 'll go mad ’ . ’ |
| 19 | So once Posi had drifted the ship down near the surface , I prepared myself for my descent — the cylinder in a carry-net slung over one shoulder , a hand raised to hold on to my hairpiece . |
| 20 | Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu . |
| 21 | Now in January 1979 , as he fled Teheran for the second time in his life , the Shah had intended to fly on to America after just a few day in Egypt . |
| 22 | Since there was never anything at all gratuitously coarse or vulgar about Karajan 's music-making , it is true that he never attempted to graft on to a score like Verdi 's Falstaff additional jokes or belly-laughs . |
| 23 | I 'd hoped to come on to Prague after that . |
| 24 | I have been asked to pass on to you comments received from a member of the public about the gate in the fence which your department recently erected round the play equipment on Scorton playing field . |
| 25 | ‘ You just wanted to hold on to them and cuddle them , ’ said hospital visitor Lisa Faulds , 23 . |
| 26 | Should girls brought up in Britain be allowed to go on to further education ? |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the proposed stimuli are myth and folk song and , hopefully , these are meant to lead on to the poetry of Blake and Shakespeare . |
| 28 | Does the alleged damage caused to the turf really warrant this control , as opposed to the pleasure gained by youngsters being allowed to run on to the pitch after the game ? |
| 29 | They 're meant to hold on to it you know so she do n't need it so often . |
| 30 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |