Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You skirt Godinton Park to go on to Great Chart . |
| 2 | The horse that forgot about the tiger that lived in its lair at the bottom of the hill , or at any time disregarded the danger , would very soon become the tiger 's dinner , and so lack the opportunity to pass on to future generations its genes for a poor memory and a low threshold of fear . |
| 3 | The horse moved on to unsound ground , feeling the danger and scrabbling for a foothold . |
| 4 | This enhancement leads on to new stages in cognitive complexity : |
| 5 | Finally , if you find your mind wanders on to other thoughts during the exercise bring it back to focus on the feelings . |
| 6 | The face was grinning , cheekless , with an eye hanging on to bare bone , glistening raw meat where great tooth marks showed clearly it had been half eaten . |
| 7 | Students from states of the European Community accepted on to full-time undergraduate courses ( excluding foundation certificates and higher national certificates ) may apply for a mandatory award . |
| 8 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 9 | Antoinette slept with her mouth open , head dropped on to steep pillows . |
| 10 | Early on , Gary Pallister missed Valdeir 's low cross and the ball ran on to unmarked captain Rai , who shot weakly at debutante goalkeeper Flowers . |
| 11 | I have a tip to pass on to other readers . |
| 12 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 13 | Another steep descent leads on to grassy col and then yet more superb ridge walking , narrow and exposed , over Sgurr nan Saighead ( 3,047ft ) . |
| 14 | After Agricola 's recall to Rome , the will to hold on to large parts of the north seems to have ebbed . |
| 15 | Unenamoured of either , he rejected both in favour of the career of a scribe here his own account goes on to other things becoming a clerk to the imperial divan in 922/1516 , and rising thence through the office of private secretary to two Grand Vezirs and that of to become nisanci in 941/1534 . |
| 16 | Within four months , however , work had stopped on the reaction and the project moved on to other reactions . |
| 17 | If the effect of use and disuse is to alter the nature of the proteins in the body , and if the replicable information passed on to future generations is carried by DNA , then Weismann has to be right if the central dogma is right . |
| 18 | They must naturally be pursued , but always giving counsellees the opportunity to move on to other , more crucial issues . |
| 19 | He liked the plain chops and boiled potatoes and greens ; most of all he liked the rice puddings with a well of red jam in the centre and evaporated milk poured on to cool it all . |
| 20 | People smiled , and the conversation moved on to other things . |
| 21 | Extending from the individual partnerships there are wide varieties of helpful relationships between groups or classes of children and a department of a business or a small company going on to whole business/school schemes . |
| 22 | ‘ That officer went on to great deeds . |
| 23 | It is even a good idea to hold on to congratulatory memos ( perhaps appended to slips telling you of pay increases ) or any other correspondence which might at some distant date help you to defend yourself against unfair criticisms of your capabilities . |
| 24 | Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage . |
| 25 | After assessing the situation , evaluating the strengths and difficulties of the client within the family network , the social worker moves on to social care planning , which has been defined as follows : |
| 26 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 27 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 28 | It is now time to move on to new pastures . |