Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
2 | There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said . |
3 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
4 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
5 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
6 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
7 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
8 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
9 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
10 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
11 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
12 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
13 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
14 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
15 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
16 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
17 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
18 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
19 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
20 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
21 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
22 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
23 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
24 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
25 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
26 | Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things . |
27 | If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it . |
28 | Every user of LIFESPAN must log on to the system via a unique user name and password , allocated in this way . |
29 | Let's r log on to the A drive first presumably ? |
30 | A hole saw looks like a hacksaw blade curled into a circle and fits on to a twist drill ( typically 6mm ) and can be used with an electric drill . |