Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 2 | Gertrude stopped working , and collapsed ponderously on to a seat . |
| 3 | ‘ More wine ? ’ she asked , throwing her coat carelessly on to a sofa in the drawing-room . |
| 4 | Melissa put an arm round her and , at a sign from Madame Delon , led her into the salon , pushed her gently on to a couch and sat down beside her . |
| 5 | I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors . |
| 6 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 7 | When two 2nd Order rivers join ( not a 1st and a 2nd ) the much larger river is 3rd Order , and so on in a hierarchy of sizes . |
| 8 | I can recall an incident early one September when I had a net carried away on to a hedge . |
| 9 | Draw these parts separately on to a piece of strong wrapping paper or thin card , or you can buy a special waxed fabric like the waxed linen our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used for making braid , Irish crochet lace or the genuine fine needlepoint laces . |
| 10 | He was saddling a fat brown cob and I stared as he led the little animal out , climbed stiffly on to a box and mounted . |
| 11 | Why do you think it did n't fail er early on as a strike , er a as the fact it was only predicted it would last two or three weeks but it was obvious at the time it was gon na go on . |
| 12 | I met Agnew very early on as a collector , in fact when the Virginia Museum put on that first exhibition of ‘ Sport and the Horse ’ whose selection committee I headed . |
| 13 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 14 | He wanted to write something which would be profoundly true and he would have liked to have corrected the image of Modigliani which developed very early on in a number of dubious publications . |
| 15 | You may discover early on in an interaction through words that you share common ground ( that you both went to the same school , for instance ) . |
| 16 | It was erm said this morning early on in an exchange in the discussion that erm |
| 17 | Early on in an analysis , a patient may not be able to verbalize their real feelings , or to admit they had hostile feelings towards the dead person , and that a part of themselves is pleased with the death . |
| 18 | She stopped the van seventy yards further on beside a steel drum and slipped the gear into neutral , leaving the engine idling . |
| 19 | The beautiful gardens lead directly on to a beach gently lapped by clear turquoise waters . |
| 20 | Once they are in place , you can have the shingle delivered — it can be dumped directly on to a drive site from the road , but you 'll need to barrow it to remote garden paths , so set planks on the lawn if you have to run across it . |
| 21 | Most of the material so far has been keyed directly on to a computer housed at Guildhall Library . |
| 22 | The survey also showed that the great majority of diplomates transferred directly on to a degree course either in their own or another institution and that relatively few went straight into employment . |
| 23 | It can be painted directly on to a surface that is rusty , as long as all the loose rust is removed first . |
| 24 | If you are plotting something which requires a log transformation , graph paper exists which enables you to plot directly on to a log scale ( as shown in figure 11.6 ) . |
| 25 | Some people gather their nets directly on to a stake . |
| 26 | An 18-cm ( 6-in ) ruler is not only used for its measuring abilities when framing designs , but also if you are working directly on to a piece of material rather than card , it is easy to slip the ruler under the fabric when you sign your picture . |
| 27 | Novacrylic is a top surface which can be laid directly on to a macadam sub base or on to layers of Novacushion or the new Ultracushion . |
| 28 | This leads directly on to an issue which will only be noted here , leaving further discussion until the next chapter . |
| 29 | Prince Charlie 's servants ushering him urgently on to a boat , looking anxiously over their shoulders to check that no traitor has deceived them and given away the location of the Prince 's departure , when suddenly the Prince spies a dark hole some miles away on the side of a hill . |
| 30 | Today at the inquest into the family 's deaths , the driver in the car behind , Stephen Marsh , said their Ford Escort just carried straight on across a bend on the road near Longcot , for no obvious reason . |