Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving a continuous , scalding double-tyretrack in my wake , I rocketed on to Sunset Boulevard , jumped three lights and made a spectacular crash-landing in the lot beneath the Vraimont . |
| 2 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 3 | Saw another social worker who got on to housing . |
| 4 | And er eventually he came er an engine which er there were some which started on petrol and then you turned on to paraffin but most of the work , just going on petrol , with a plug and a magneto . |
| 5 | Then a fiercer gust of wind almost blew her from the path and she hung on to bag and box like grim death . |
| 6 | Trying to ignore what they might be saying about her , she held on to silence as her only control . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The desert appeared abruptly , and we stepped on to sand as one would step across a threshold , in a single stride . |
| 9 | In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time . |
| 10 | Zuwaya heard on the BBC Arabic Service that President Sadat had made a speech about Libya : they switched on to Radio Cairo in the evening to listen to it . |
| 11 | ‘ Course they went on to grammar school as 't was in they days . |
| 12 | He moved on to construction , the stock markets and property development . |
| 13 | During his early teens he moved on to rugby . |
| 14 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 15 | ‘ He told me that there was a wonderful view , but it came on to rain and — ’ |
| 16 | He went on to University College London , where he graduated B.Sc. |
| 17 | He went on to discourse at length on the nature of fat . |
| 18 | It means erm , specifically , wean the breast , so that the child accepts solid food or that 's what in general means erm , getting a child off baby food as it went on to adult food . |
| 19 | Maybe it 'll lead him to explain that he latched on to lust because something was missing for the moment in your relationship . |
| 20 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 21 | Once there , he held on to power for a long time , easily in successive periods of government , with unusual difficulty in opposition . |
| 22 | Its prolonged domination is really quite amazing , and the way it held on to power at this time is an impressive lesson in dynastic skill . |