Example sentences of "[verb] on to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 2 | Martha , who had decided to stop thinking about the inconvenience they were causing , asked Woodie not to stop at the boats ; they would like to go on to the New King 's Road . |
| 3 | From Seathwaite follow the access road to Long House Farm ( 1 mile ) but bypass the farm to go on to the Walna Scar Road ( actually a bridleway ) . |
| 4 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 5 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 6 | Mr Hamilton-Renwick soon moved on to the Dobermann 's smaller relative , the Miniature Pinscher . |
| 7 | Signing on to the DSD scheme , for instance , puts one more barrier in the way of a foreign firm wanting to sell in Germany . |
| 8 | That 's why I was thinking I might hang on to the Volvo for another two years until you 've got your own car and then I can buy what I really want . |
| 9 | More than 45 firefighters were called to the scene at Preston Brook on the M56 in Cheshire after the tanker carrying kerosene crashed on to the Liverpool to London line . |
| 10 | Here is a selection of your letters which we 'll send on to the BBC . |
| 11 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 12 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 13 | Captain Swan was the trainer on that occasion and Charlie then moved on to the Kevin Prendergast yard where he had to give up Flat racing because of a sharp rise in his weight following an accident . |
| 14 | The service 's interest began with his trade with Russia , then moved on to the Iran-Iraq war and the build-up to the Gulf crisis . |
| 15 | The American approach has traditionally been to offer a range of models , like Cessna and Piper 's basic two-seat trainers , the 152 and Tomahawk at the bottom end of the range for training , leading on to the Cessna 172 or PA 28 for the experienced pilot owner . |
| 16 | You pop on to The Michael Aspel Show as a guest , crack a few jokes in a borrowed gown , plug your latest book/show/film/affair , mop up more than your rightful share of Sancerre in the Hostility Room , and go home in a studio limo . |
| 17 | Nobles attending the court were ordered to go first to the apartments of Dara Shukoh and there make their morning obeisance before going on to the Diwan-i-khas to greet Shah Jehan . |
| 18 | Well like what are the band doing after practice , are they doing anything , they 're probably all going on to the Cutty Sark at Greenwich or something . |
| 19 | Philip who lives in Darlington , and attended the town 's Longfield Comprehensive school before going on to the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College , has already represented his country at under 15 and under 16 levels . |
| 20 | On Monday evening booksellers can meet author Nigel Williams ( Faber ) , and afterwards any delegate not otherwise engaged is invited to join BA president John Hitchin for a conference first , a President 's Personal Spring Supper at Cockington Court , before going on to the David & Charles Disco . |
| 21 | I thought this must be the end for all three of us but in fact all the policeman wanted to do was to stop any traffic going on to the Via Emilia as a big convoy was on its way south towards Parma . |
| 22 | He gave a quick , curt nod to the soldiers on duty and turned on to the Al Ain road . |
| 23 | The driver revved up enthusiastically and turned on to the October Bidge . |
| 24 | ‘ So , you 've gone to the top , ’ Buckmaster commented as they turned on to the Okehampton road . |
| 25 | He emerged two minutes later with a bulky small man , and the Land Rover turned on to the Cambridge road , making for the headquarters of the regional crime squad . |
| 26 | Back along with the back to what you would call the sea crossing er to and get on to the Rousay pier then and get a dinghy or something and row across to Wyre . |
| 27 | She walked on to the Fourniers ' house , dragging every step . |
| 28 | Jilinski , however , seemed oblivious to Samsonov 's ever more perilous situation , and as late as 26 August — when the hapless Samsonov was just about to be engulfed from all sides — he commanded Rennenkampf to employ two corps for the investment of Königsberg and with the rest of his army to press on to the Vistula . |
| 29 | On the 29th of this month , Yan-Pascal Tortelier will be giving his farewell concert as Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra in the Usher Hall , before officially moving on to the BBC Philharmonic ( see above ) . |
| 30 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |