Example sentences of "[vb past] on to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in Scotland the majority of the ‘ salariat ’ ( 58 per cent ) clung on to such views . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It veered on to another track and smashed into the approaching passenger train . |
| 5 | And then she saw that there was a narrow , open doorway in the wall opposite her , which opened on to another chamber . |
| 6 | But last Saturday Major climbed on to that soapbox in Luton . |
| 7 | Allen looked about and then scampered on to another branch . |
| 8 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 9 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
| 10 | Another hill-top gave on to more hills . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Smith , of course , latched on to this development . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The two held on to each other tightly . |
| 15 | He remembered how the travellers and the seafarers who came to Tara had always told that at the centre of every whirlpool , at the heart of every tempest , is a great tranquillity , and he caught and held on to this thought . |
| 16 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 17 | They held on to this fortress until 1264 , when it passed to the Habsburgs , who in turn lost it to the canton of Zurich in 1452 . |
| 18 | He was in any case eclipsed — they all were — by the presence of Dinah herself , strong and compelling as when she swept on to any stage . |