Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 2 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |
| 3 | The council 's ruling Labour group split on the issue , after leading opponents of the scheme claimed it would increase violence with drinkers spilling on to the streets at exactly the same time . |
| 4 | The local heats take place at Acklam Sports Centre on Wednesday and Thursday , July 29 and 30 with the winners going on to the regional final on August 5 . |
| 5 | During the final stages of an attack the weapon 's sensors lock on to the target ship 's radar or sonar signals and the Telemine homes in on them . |
| 6 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |
| 7 | Swell waves running on to a coast break when the forward motion of particles at the wave crest exceeds the forward movement of the wave as a whole , a state of affairs caused by the wave retarding as it runs into shallow water and sometimes over-naively attributed to friction with the sea bottom . |
| 8 | Some financial planners have worked out another loophole , telling their clients to hang on to the part of their income paid in company shares , because taxes on capital gains are unlikely to rise under President Clinton and may even fall . |
| 9 | Both cars spun on to the grass outfield , Senna 's McLaren minus its left front wheel and Mansell 's car damaged badly enough to ensure his retirement . |
| 10 | The winners go on to the national finals in York , the winners of that may have a chance of selection for the Paralympics in Barcelona . |
| 11 | On the London stage , the great roles will be plucked like plums , in the Welsh valleys his fame will swell like the fortissimo of a chapel organ and his acts of generosity , recklessness , coarseness and excellent manners tossed on to the fiery legend like dry logs . |
| 12 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |
| 13 | The fiery Scot was first to react when two supporters ran on to The Dell to stage an injury-time protest . |
| 14 | About 100 fans from two sections of the ground allocated to away fans ran on to the pitch after Cardiff took a 2–1 lead . |
| 15 | Furious Saints fans ran on to the pitch in anger just before the final whistle as their team headed for a 2–1 defeat by QPR . |
| 16 | A large number of jubilant Boro fans ran on to the pitch to congratulate Pollock , a gesture which is now a criminal offence . |
| 17 | But the variable of interest may of course genuinely swing around abruptly ; the monthly count of unemployed people rises very sharply when school-leavers come on to the register , for example . |
| 18 | The counter-argument is that seasonal adjustment will itself take care of much of the distortion ( as it will eliminate the predictable seasonal rise in unemployment in July and August when school-leavers come on to the register ) . |
| 19 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 22 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 23 | About 6,000 silk rosettes have to be made next , and these are stitched on the inside and outside of the garland before forty-eight red , white and blue ribbons with bells sewn on to the ends are attached . |
| 24 | His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market . |
| 25 | Whole farms and landed estates at the edge of urban areas came on to the market ; suburban land prices therefore were very low . |
| 26 | At the top of the spiral staircases are two wooden trapdoors leading on to the battlements . |
| 27 | Footsteps on a wood floor ; then silence as the feet stepped on to a rug . |
| 28 | Obviously we 're trying to make a homely atmosphere so that parents can come and go , er when new parents come on to the ward , when new patients come on to the ward , nursing staff maintain a , a close control and a close liaison with them , so were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I am sure they would be picked up almost immediately . |
| 29 | The gun crews on its roof fled , and the commandos doubled on to the bridge ( 'G' ) across the Old Entrance lock into the submarine basin , holding this exposed position for half an hour under fire from 20mm guns on the roof of the submarine pens and other buildings on the west side of the basin . |
| 30 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |