Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 2 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 3 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 4 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 5 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 6 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 7 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 8 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 9 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 10 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 11 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
| 12 | Take great care not to apply too much adhesive as it will show through or seep out once the glass is pressed on to the picture . |
| 13 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |
| 14 | The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point . |
| 15 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 16 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
| 17 | Lucifer pointed out to Eve the forbidden apple on the flat tree painted on to the back panel of the cart . |
| 18 | This is available as a white powder which is mixed with water and painted on to the concrete . |
| 19 | York skyline painted on to the car by artist Paula MacArthur . |
| 20 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 21 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 22 | Just as she reached it , the light from a lantern spilled on to the square , and she saw a man enter the place behind it . |
| 23 | Picking up her tray without the fruit and cake she had planned to take , Belinda left the cafeteria line with tight lips and stiffened shoulders , but , before she had gone very far , Deana had caught up to her , grabbing her upper arm roughly and painfully so that her hot dinner spilled on to the tray and splashed her wrist . |
| 24 | Kate had somehow knocked over her cup , and tea spilled on to the tray , splashing her skirt . |
| 25 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 26 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 27 | On landing , the Ashdown mob spilled on to the apron and surrounded Kinnock 's plane , still singing and trying to persuade the party leaders to shake hands like opposing troops on the Western Front at Christmas . |
| 28 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 29 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 30 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |