Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet . |
| 2 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman got on to my area by making comparisons on education and training between this country and other countries . |
| 4 | The lesser bag she slung on to her shoulder . |
| 5 | Throughout the Depression the NUAW clung on to its existence by retaining the rump of its membership — no more than 25000 — in its East Anglian stronghold . |
| 6 | And Marie , oblivious of her cold , wet jacket , clung on to his arm as they walked along . |
| 7 | The rope of her orange-grey plait tumbled on to her shoulder . |
| 8 | She passed on to our agent the name Raphael , though he paid for it with his life . |
| 9 | The YTS we passed on to our Plant Raiser was no better . |
| 10 | When , in 1353 and 1354 , the negotiators got down to their work again , this time in Guines , near Calais , the English made demands which the French at first seemed willing to concede : Aquitaine , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , as well as other lands would be ruled by the English in full sovereignty . |
| 11 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 12 | Samantha sank on to her bed to show the helpless state she expected to be in by the evening . |
| 13 | Her head sank on to her chin and a kind of blank look misted over her eyes . |
| 14 | When finally they would carry him no more , he ducked into a doorway and sank on to his bottom , breathing heavily . |
| 15 | She was wearing a turquoise string-and-patch bikini bottom and had a technique , when she moved on to her back , of cupping the discarded bra to her breasts and nipping its sides with her upper arms as she turned , in order to cover herself . |
| 16 | Then Travis moved on to his back , drawing her with him to rest her head in the angle of his shoulder . |
| 17 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 18 | All of a sudden several unpleasant consequences of spending a large amount of time alone with fitzAlan , without so much as a spit-boy for chaperon , rose forcibly to her mind . |
| 19 | She fastened on to his meaning . |
| 20 | As his footsteps receded down the passage , Polly 's hand rose slowly to her mouth . |
| 21 | He tossed a single crimson rose on to her oak coffin . |
| 22 | I got it narrowed down to your number . ’ |
| 23 | This is made explicit in most sets of disciplinary rules , but is in any event a term built in to your contract by the common law . |
| 24 | When Bede came to write further of him , he referred only to his subjection of the Picts ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 25 | With the exception of the Sergeant in the Princeps ' seat , those inside the head had not been able to notice the fireball behind them , though the blast wave contributed somewhat to their sway . |
| 26 | The ‘ chair ’ moved swiftly to his rescue , bowling him what she thought to be a slow ball . |
| 27 | Tommaso bent down to her cheek and placed his lips against her ear . |
| 28 | Then he bent down to my ear , |
| 29 | He bent down to his briefcase which he 'd left on the floor , took out a folder , turned back the pages , and handed it to her . |
| 30 | Matthew S. looked uncertain , but bent down to his paper again . |