Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 2 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 3 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 4 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 5 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 6 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 7 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 8 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 9 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 10 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 11 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 12 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 13 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 14 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 15 | Howling jackals and hyenas disturbed their nights , and kites swooped on to the plate of any man foolish enough to leave his food uncovered . |
| 16 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 17 | There was a giggle , and Claudia clung on to the phone , feeling faint . |
| 18 | But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips . |
| 19 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 20 | ‘ Go for the girl , ’ ordered Randy Sherwood , as South Sussex rode on to the field . |
| 21 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 22 | I led on to the subject of the probability of his having shortly to be released from his pain and suffering and hoped that his trust was in his Saviour and he replied , ‘ Oh yes , it is ! |
| 23 | In later stages , cottage and craft industries were moved into factories , which then led on to the development of ‘ machinofacture ’ ( mechanised production ) through technological innovation . |
| 24 | It required the outbreak of war and the threatened imminence of defeat to produce the power-sharing of 1940 , which led on to the power transference of 1945 . |
| 25 | The great events of his administration were the return to the gold standard , the Treaty of Locarno , the General Strike , the Imperial Conference of 1926 which led on to the Statute of Westminster , and the measures originating in the Ministry of Health for the reform of local government and the extension of social security . |
| 26 | The collapsed roof tumbled on to the drive and wrecked his car . |
| 27 | She read on to the story of holidays at Blackpool and Filey , a trip to London , and the gradually expanding horizons which writing brought to Walter . |
| 28 | The river itself clung longest to the light , shining opaline blue between gloomy banks . |
| 29 | Amaranth twirled about , and a lemony yellow scarf fluttered on to the head of William Rees Mogg . |
| 30 | During the 1960s and 1970s interest in the language of Caribbeans in British schools led eventually to the publication of specialised teaching materials and the implementation of policies in the light of two Commissions of Inquiry ( Bullock 1975 ; Rampton 1981 ) . |