Example sentences of "[noun] on to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Trim away excess and place the base on to the cake drum .
2 In a remarkable inversion of Soviet vocabulary , he accused radicals of pressing for power using the " neo-Bolshevik tactic " of taking the political struggle on to the streets .
3 Er where we 'd inter-coopt er Colin on to the F and G P for that so you get the opportunity , thank you very much , you get the opportunity of reporting to us what , what you 've done .
4 He gripped it with his hands , got his foot on to the latch , heaved up and rolled over the top .
5 Delaney swung a foot on to the ladder .
6 Prolonged frost will drive these birds on to the sea , but many return inland immediately there is a thaw .
7 incentive to get us up this last steep pull on to the summit of Beinn Ghlas .
8 l Louise looked at her young son and suggested he might like to take his easel on to the patio .
9 Zigzagging our way down the street we saw a car coming towards us and thought some terrible error had allowed the driver on to the toboggan track .
10 Girls cheered and threw money on to the stage , but the curtain came down , the head hit him again and , with the curtain back up , the youngster was caned in the middle of the performance .
11 When she returned to the kitchen , she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire .
12 Therefore , in order to get his legislative requests on to the statute-book , the President has to rely much more on ad hoc coalitions in support of each specific measure .
13 Henry unscrewed the top of the brass cylinder and shook out a bundle of sticks on to the table .
14 The car gave a roar , then slowly moved out of the garage ; the dim side-lights showed a pale flicker on the back of the house , then swung around for an instant on to the gardens .
15 The girl let go of my hand and moved away into the gloom behind me , where she must have put the screwed-up five-pound notes on to the chest of drawers with the magazines , the small framed photograph , the towel , the box of paper tissues , the jar of Vaseline , the baby 's dummy and all the other odds and ends spilled over the varnished oak top .
16 Swivelling round in his chair , he dropped a pile of X-rays and accompanying notes on to the desk beside him .
17 He followed Trent over the rail on to the dock , prodding him with the tip of his knife : ‘ We go jus ' leetle way in the jungle , leetle dog . ’
18 Taking care to keep to the well trodden dirt path between the growing vegetables , she crossed the last field on to the riverbank .
19 I would suggest using paper , as this is the easiest option to apply , and there is a vast range of colours , and even textures , if you wish to extend your design skills on to the back of the picture as well !
20 When anything like this happened , every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department .
21 I do n't forget how often you have threatened to throw Ben on to the streets ; knowing full well that if he went , I would go with him .
22 The " Copydesk " facility allows the user to input text in various forms on to the screen and thus create a true newspaper page .
23 Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before .
24 I dropped each denomination of Cayman coin on to the sand to see how the machine responded to them .
25 Next he tossed a small coin on to the coffin .
26 She dropped her robe on to the stool near by and stepped into the water , sinking slowly down into the warmth .
27 Within a year , 10,000 miners had flocked from the Walla Walla settlement on to the reservation , and Lawyer 's followers readily signed an agreement exchanging mining rights north of the Clearwater for $50,000 .
28 ‘ It looked stormy but I risked it , ’ he wrote of a 1931 Boxing Day expedition with his younger son , and we drove through Cleobury Mortimer on to the Clees .
29 Secure the red numbers on to the side panels with royal icing , and then fix the lifebelts on to the boat in the same way , three on each side and two on the deck .
30 Together , the three of them removed the boards which formed the trough and the natron ran off in a tide of white powder on to the floor .
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