Example sentences of "[noun sg] on to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . |
| 2 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’ |
| 3 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 4 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 5 | She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck . |
| 6 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 7 | When he arrived there were disappointingly few people and he felt rather obvious holding on to a rolled-up newspaper . |
| 8 | He turned the oven on to 250 and put the okra and the edenwort on to a low heat . |
| 9 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 10 | TWO workmen were in hospital last night after falling 18ft through a false roof on to a concrete floor . |
| 11 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 12 | First , I draw out the outline of the motif on to a mylar sheet , with all the outlines for the different areas of colour I want to use . |
| 13 | He scattered these from a window on to a sandy area just in front of the inn door . |
| 14 | He had a particular reason for regarding the old female golden eagle as special and , like Creggan , he was obsessed by it now , and stood in his pyjamas staring out of an open window on to a cold and moonlit night . |
| 15 | One of the tenants I met looks through her window on to a neat square garden . |
| 16 | Bull O'Malley threw his overcoat on to a nearby couch and sat down heavily . |
| 17 | Glue the fabric for the bow on to a small piece of card , cut out and attach to the bear 's neck by gluing the centre of the bow only . |
| 18 | But a lull in Burnley 's flurries saw Tony Daws leap on to a bad back-pass , skip round a defender and the converging goalkeeper and equalise just after the hour . |
| 19 | Dad spent quite a time loading manure on to a flat-bedded cart , harnessed a horse , put it between the shafts and away to Bugmore we went , with me feeling like a king beside him . |
| 20 | In the early 1970s a few producers [ through none in europe ] adopted a continuous method of producing acrylic shet by casting the thickened monomer on to a moving stainless steel band , but this was not very suiccessful . |
| 21 | Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him . |
| 22 | In panic the dealer had offloaded the stuff on to a willing client . |
| 23 | Neumann 's hanging on to a limited and personalized notion of what constitutes an Allegretto leads him to assume many things for which there is little foundation . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , he 'll perk up , Miss Vine , ’ Mrs Abigail said , mustering further cheerfulness as she emptied roast beef , potatoes , brussels sprouts and gravy on to a cold plate . |
| 25 | There are various ways of mapping a plane on to a sphere ( or vice versa ) but there is no way of doing this without producing some kind of distortion or another ; Mercator 's projection of the globe on to a flat map , leads to a diminutive Africa and an exaggerated Greenland . |
| 26 | She sprayed solvent on to a tiny patch of her arm then stuck a needle through the little gap in her syn-skin , injecting herself . |
| 27 | Titmuss 's famous book The Gift Relationship ( 1970 ) used the example of donating blood to raise the whole discussion about giving and social welfare on to a philosophical level . |
| 28 | Turn the dough on to a floured surface and roll to a thickness of 2.5cm ( 1in ) . |
| 29 | Their action was therefore rather like pouring water on to a hot frying pan , only with more serious consequences . |
| 30 | After a sleepy first half , almost everyone had nodded off , except for Rovers ' Peter Heritage , who nodded the ball on to a greatful Eddie Gormely . |