Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 2 | Parnell was in jail , and the British authorities are desperately holding on to power as support for the Land League accelerates . |
| 3 | post-interview with the teacher to obtain his view of the lesson outcomes , including particular incidents and pupils — possibly leading on to discussion of the SCAN record and possible inferences from it about the material |
| 4 | He was a short man , still clinging on to youth in his clothes and the cut of his hair . |
| 5 | Er and then going on to article twelve under the principle |
| 6 | Each special effect is just barely holding on to credibility , waiting for that cut which often comes only just in time ( and sometimes a fraction late ) . |
| 7 | Okay , erm okay moving on to semantics , we 're half way through point three . |