Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 2 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 3 | No , but I mean there are other such reasons I mean there may be initially choosing clothes or something like that , but when I put them on in the morning I usually put them on to suit the weather and what 's clean and what I 've got tights to match . |
| 4 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 5 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 6 | They put it on to tape and called it ‘ Cossachok ’ , but later gave it the proper title of ‘ Hopak ’ . |
| 7 | Paul the apostle gives us this assurance : ‘ He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus . ’ |
| 8 | I always pray with joy being confident of this , that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus . |
| 9 | We know he will enjoy watching the sports programmes despite the fact that Bristol Rovers football team have not quite made it on to Sky TV yet ! is well know for being a keen supporter of Bristol Rovers , a fact which did not go unrecognised by who presented him with a beautiful jugglers top hat in his favourite team 's colours . |
| 10 | None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD . |
| 11 | ‘ But it 's within yourself , what drives you on to win championships and cups . |
| 12 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 13 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 14 | ‘ He really turned me on to geography . |
| 15 | leading one on to worship |
| 16 | Enthusiasm can spur one on to cram the border full of as many herbs as possible , but some of them are likely to die as a result , and others will be tall and weedy ; it is far better to plant with spaces between them to start with , allowing them room to grow to their full size so that their growth habit and leaf value can be made the most of in the context of the overall design . |
| 17 | After she reaches the mountain stronghold of the guerrillas , the ‘ Old Woman with the 2 pistols ’ who leads the guerrillas , commiserates with her , but she rallies round , and makes a speech saying that her husband 's death will spur her on to fight with new vigour for the Liberation . |
| 18 | Sunderland turned it on to win 3–0 against Ipswich and end their dismal sequence of five league defeats but Crosby expects an entirely different type of game against a side battling desperately for survival . |
| 19 | Huxtable also carried out experiments to test the possibilities of disposing of urban sewage by pumping it on to farm land . |
| 20 | Okay right , stop , stop , stop please , you 're out of your heads if you have n't got it on to paper . |
| 21 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 22 | This leads us on to acceptance sampling . |
| 23 | Rufus takes them on to step two : ‘ So he going to send a search party , is n't he ? |
| 24 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 25 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 26 | Aye cos if it was like family you could lay it on to family easier than you could lay it on to somebody |
| 27 | Inorganic compounds are used to absorb the sunlight and then pass it on to water . |
| 28 | When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats . |
| 29 | Instead , David pointed out landmarks they passed and eventually Julia led him on to talk about his childhood holidays at Fiesole . |
| 30 | I I 'm pretty sure that that 's so , Chair , and you d when you say you 're recruiting erm , young people from school , training or , erm , taking them on to engineering vacancies . |