Example sentences of "[art] [noun] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
| 2 | It was completely dark and she dared not even put the light on to look at her watch . |
| 3 | ‘ Switch the engine on to charge . ’ |
| 4 | He switched the machine on to receiver mode . |
| 5 | and leaving the headlights on to guide you |
| 6 | ‘ When I heard the Cup competition had no sponsor , I approached Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson who passed the request on to Production Director Peter Robinson . ’ |
| 7 | The announcement of a link-up with the BBC on to satellite is more than a propaganda coup for Thames Television . |
| 8 | Erm well it depends erm the , the economics of power production are extremely erm er complex and , and t to a certain extent arbitrary erm and erm I mean there , there are various ways that the government can actually get out of this fix because obviously it 's caused a lot of concern to close the , the mines , and one is actually to , to subsidize the mines and put the price on to electricity bills er the other is to subsidize the mines er but pay for it out of the , out of , er out of taxes so it 's a basic , instead of paying for it on your electricity bill , you pay for it on your tax bill , yeah . |
| 9 | He put the television on to watch a news programme , but before it had started , the telephone at his elbow rang . |
| 10 | When you create a garment shape with Version 4 , you do have to print the pattern on to paper in order to be able to knit the garment . |
| 11 | Hey do you care about you know the other day we were talking about the erm I wanted to get one of the councillors on to talk about this but I I ca n't find the right one . |
| 12 | Operators were using punch machines and then transferring the results on to tape . |
| 13 | He suffered cancer a few years ago … and is putting the show on to raise money for cancer charities . |
| 14 | He switched on all the lights downstairs and put the kettle on to boil . |
| 15 | In an effort to quell the hysteria she made herself do ordinary things — putting the kettle on to boil — milk to warm — instant coffee in two brown mugs . |
| 16 | All you got ta do is turn the oven on to heat the meals up . |
| 17 | Picking up the remote control , he turned the TV on to video . |
| 18 | She put the porridge on to cook and started to sweep the room . |
| 19 | In terms of optimum climatic conditions , the Corn Belt would be forced towards the north on to acid podzol soils which are badly leached and which would require extensive and expensive soil amendments . |
| 20 | ‘ A complicated sort of photographic process transfers the design on to mesh screen rollers in Chester 's engraving department . |
| 21 | Then strain pulp through a plastic sieve or muslin cloth spread over a funnel on to sugar , shaking the demijohn to dissolve it . |
| 22 | When you save a design on to disk , all the colours and codes that you have defined for the woolbox will also be saved with the design . |
| 23 | I ca n't believe anyone would be stupid enough to trail a wire on to power cables and then leave it lying around for someone to touch . ’ |