Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] on to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this light spilling on to the driveway , it just was n't like him . |
| 2 | National Assembly elections involve two rounds of voting on consecutive Sundays with the two most successful candidates in the first round and candidates polling over 12.5 per cent of the vote going on to the second round . |
| 3 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 4 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 5 | Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum . |
| 6 | Agnes Winkowski turned from the frightened child clinging on to the side of her hand-cart and looked back to watch two men of the law speeding after the woman . |
| 7 | I continued to go off and on although I do have some special memories as a youngster running on to the Hillsborough turf to shake John Giles 's hand after beating Birmingham 3–0 in the Cup semi-final ( 1972 ) . |
| 8 | The ground plan normally consisted of three main rooms , the baggage room and the waiting-room at each end , with the office between , usually with a bay window projecting on to the platform to afford the station agent a view up and down the tracks . |
| 9 | Have to find him yon old folkery with the picture-window looking on to the stand of immemorial beeches , the dingle dell , the plashing brook , the wishing-well , the verdant sward … |
| 10 | Because if they do n't understand that , there 's no point going on to the next stage . |
| 11 | The fraction of each configuration , P i , P h , and P s , measured from the respective peak areas , can be related to ρ m the probability that a monomer adding on to the end of a growing chain will have the same configuration as the unit it is joining . |
| 12 | Karrimor had made two special rucsacs , the bike 's top tube clamping on to the reinforced cover flap so that the whole bike sat across your back . |
| 13 | This will mean £20bn-worth of sterling coming on to the market to buy foreign currency . |
| 14 | Rain falling on to the theatre nearby was collected in a channel circling the orchestra to fill a large rock-cut storage cistern . |
| 15 | The chemical ( 2,4-diamino-5- ( 3,4,5 trimethoxybenzyl ) pyrimidine ) acts as an inhibitor locking on to the active site of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase ( DHFR ) which catalyses the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate in microbial and eucaryotic cells ( see figure ) . |
| 16 | For instance , when the Yorkshire Television helicopter landed on her doorstep for the first time , it was feared that the experience may be alarming to her , something akin to an alien spaceship settling on to the average suburban lawn . |
| 17 | Packets of sugar leaking crystals , biscuits , flour seeping on to the scrubbed surface , plates with the remains of a meal . |
| 18 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 19 | A footnote to Miss Godden 's article states that , of the bomb-destroyed Garden Room , only the wall facing on to the street has been rebuilt . |
| 20 | On covered surfaces soil and vegetation maintains a continuous presence of moisture on the rock surface while organic decay increases the quantity of organic acids and the abundance of carbon dioxide ; both increase the aggressiveness of the water percolating on to the rock surface . |
| 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 | It came clear from the bag , her finger slipping on to the trigger , thumb freeing the safety catch . |
| 23 | She thinks about the structure of Disraeli 's Sybil : or , the Two Nations ( 1845 ) , until the sound of the Guardian dropping on to the doormat sends her scurrying to the front door . ) |
| 24 | So Molly stood in the kitchen , the centre of the house , with its door opening on to the terrace , where now , for certain , no one stood watching her . |
| 25 | However policy-makers ' overriding concern with inflation and the calculations about likely reactions of financial markets to inflation-risking economic policies ( notably in Britain in 1976 , France in 1982 — 3 , and Australia in 1984 ) have forced advocates of state spending on to the defensive . |
| 26 | ‘ Strange that , ’ said Bob as he arrived by my side at the front door clutching on to the shop door keys . |
| 27 | Opening the door a crack she saw John lying in bed , unshaven and tousled , his pillows tumbled and the blue rayon eiderdown slipping on to the floor . |
| 28 | The floors of the rooms were covered with cracked blue and white tiles , the walls were a pale blue wash flaking on to the sand and the doors a bright sea blue . |
| 29 | The numbers in each year are progressively multiplied by some survival ratio to forecast the number going on to the next year , with ancillary information added in as appropriate . |
| 30 | Estimates published yesterday by both the Middle East Economic Survey and the Reuter news agency showed that OPEC 's total output rose from 25.3 million bpd to 25.6 million bpd last month , resulting in surplus oil flowing on to the market . |