Example sentences of "[vb past] on to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They withdrew their support and Fawcett , whom they had seconded to the project , moved on to other research . |
| 2 | Within Bield one survey showed that half of those tenants who moved on to further care from sheltered housing did so wholly or primarily for mental health reasons . |
| 3 | After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation . |
| 4 | The horse moved on to unsound ground , feeling the danger and scrabbling for a foothold . |
| 5 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 6 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 7 | I came down to earth a bit when Harry Enfield came on to thunderous applause . |
| 8 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 9 | It veered on to another track and smashed into the approaching passenger train . |
| 10 | And then she saw that there was a narrow , open doorway in the wall opposite her , which opened on to another chamber . |
| 11 | But last Saturday Major climbed on to that soapbox in Luton . |
| 12 | He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport . |
| 13 | Allen looked about and then scampered on to another branch . |
| 14 | Only three seasons ago , under Dave Stringer , Norwich led Division One until New Year 's Eve , hung on to second place for nearly three more months but collapsed to finish fourth , 14 points behind Arsenal and Liverpool . |
| 15 | In 1979 , only one young person in eight went on to higher education . |
| 16 | Then he looked specifically at the effect of the results of the three month or si six month cystoscopies , but they did note that only those pa only those patients who had recurrence in the first year went on to progressive stage . |
| 17 | Act and went on to other employment and trade union legislation . |
| 18 | But Irina Rodnina went on to ever-greater skating heights with new partner Alexander Zaitsev , whom she wed in 1975 . |
| 19 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 21 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 22 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
| 23 | Early on , Gary Pallister missed Valdeir 's low cross and the ball ran on to unmarked captain Rai , who shot weakly at debutante goalkeeper Flowers . |
| 24 | First , Waddell notched his second try after an incisive break by Little who also converted ; and then it was the right winger Manning who latched on to another break by Murray Wallace and made the score 32-0 . |
| 25 | Mr Smith , of course , latched on to this development . |
| 26 | The last two lines are not based on Mr Graham 's observation since he travelled on to another destination ; they were put in ‘ to gratify Mr Graham ’ , as the Fenwick note has it . |
| 27 | Vauxhall held on to second spot with 21,679 sales ( down 6994 ) . |
| 28 | The two held on to each other tightly . |
| 29 | Nomura held on to top spot in the annual Eurobond underwriting rankings while other Japanese firms slipped ; Yamaichi dropped to tenth while London 's CSFB shot up to second place . |
| 30 | Watson held on to third place with a final 74 for a 296 total , with former England international Martin Foster of Worksop just a stroke behind after a closing 68 . |