Example sentences of "[vb past] on to this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
2 | Mr Smith , of course , latched on to this development . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |