Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] onto the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair . |
| 2 | He said that his men were held back by the heat of the fire , which stripped plaster from the walls , burnt floorboards and brought ceilings crashing down onto the ground floor of the semidetached house . |
| 3 | One theory of the origin of ice ages is that they occur when large masses ( for example , comets ) crash down onto the Earth , throwing up vast amounts of detritus into the stratosphere which block off the heat from the Sun . |
| 4 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 5 | The duck flops down onto the water . |
| 6 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 7 | Enveloped by a cloud of gases with little or no oxygen , the sun 's ultraviolet rays scorched down onto the earth 's volatile surface . |
| 8 | Both these cars were fitted with Spencer track brakes , which could be wound down onto the rails when descending the hill . |
| 9 | Some sociologists have researched ‘ counter school ’ youth cultures , and how they are naturally carried over onto the shopfloor . |
| 10 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 11 | After a couple of days to sort kit , we headed up onto the hill in two parties of eight . |
| 12 | Initially probably about er three hundred yards er in a in a side junction erm , but as , once the ins once the operation had commenced erm we moved up onto the car park actually on , below the flats . |
| 13 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 14 | The fleeing Dutch guns crashed up onto the road , their chains and buckets swinging . |
| 15 | The green man was flashing and we were crossing it and it just li I had to jump back onto the pavement ! |
| 16 | The mitre template has since come back onto the market , but at prices like £18-£20 and considering the relatively small amount of work in which it is employed , some readers will no doubt feel that they could spend that money more profitably , so will want to make their own . |
| 17 | Bulbed out onto the earth , with swivelling eyes , |
| 18 | As she wandered out onto the balcony there was very little breeze , and she looked over the tops of the royal palms towards a calm , softly undulating sea . |
| 19 | Robinson and Porter both retrieved the small plastic buckets from one corner of the cell and wandered out onto the landing . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been around , ’ she said as they moved out onto the floor . |
| 21 | As they moved out onto the entrance steps , they saw a breakdown wagon thundering by and raising up dust in the square . |
| 22 | As they moved out onto the lough , the wind began to bite through her light dress , but she still stood , still waved . |
| 23 | And where they have to come out onto the road before the Shilton dip , where they actually come from Scrubs Lane onto the road , it 's on a right angle bend and , you know , we 've had several mishaps down there . |
| 24 | Back at the 18th green the Princess had not yet been given her cue to come out onto the dais where the presentations were to be made . |
| 25 | Here a tasteful modern development looks out onto the statue of Christ ( similar to but much smaller than those in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon ) , which was inaugurated in 1927 . |
| 26 | He pushed away from the wall against which he was leaning and staggered out onto the sidewalk again . |
| 27 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 28 | Andy takes the man 's calves under his armpits and lifts ; I get underneath and force the man 's shoulders up ; his head goes over onto the stone rim of the vent , beneath the grating . |
| 29 | Something was not quite right , so without hesitation he dropped down onto the deck . |
| 30 | Then for the acoustics of this hall where sound gets congested at the back of the orchestra we have two hyper-cardioid microphones ( which are very directional ) looking down onto the percussion . |