Example sentences of "[vb pp] on to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
| 7 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
| 8 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 9 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 10 | We dropped anchor offshore , and passengers and baggage were off-loaded on to a barge . |
| 11 | Ah was affronted fur her , imagine gettin' stuck ‘ n ’ huvin' to get rolled on to a stretcher , the perr o' them , and kerted oot covered up wi' his poplin shortie . |
| 12 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
| 13 | The power lift appears to have worked with a cable attached to the rear of the plough , which was raised as the other end of the cable was wound on to a shaft . |
| 14 | The element is first placed on the stripping machine where the contaminated cladding is cut away , then dropped on to a conveyor belt to be stored under water in concrete storage silos . |
| 15 | If you touched a picture , there was a brief humming noise and then the food dropped on to a tray in a slot . |
| 16 | Staff hung out of the chemists Strickland and Holt , cheering and waving ; men scrambled on to a ledge above the Peter Dominic off-licence ; boys climbed on to the top of bus shelters . |
| 17 | WORK is soon to start on a £5.2m scheme which will prevent raw sewage being pumped on to a Merseyside beach . |
| 18 | A subsequent ramp built on to a fire exit out of one of the rooms was better , though the aforementioned student had long since left . |
| 19 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 20 | This means that the best possible data model can be formulated with the knowledge that it can be mapped on to a DBMS . |
| 21 | Once this thesaurus has been devised it will be mapped on to a set of codes , which will allow the information to be communicated electronically throughout the NHS . |
| 22 | If a local entity analysis is carried out , the model can be mapped on to a database and applications applied to it before another local data analysis is started . |
| 23 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 24 | The most useful is the automatic mode : by keeping the trigger gently depressed , the tool will fire a staple every time the nose is pushed on to a surface . |
| 25 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 26 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 27 | Police moved on to a housing estate in St Mellons , Cardiff , after a five-day surveillance operation . |
| 28 | While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe . |
| 29 | This committee was composed of representatives of producers , employees and consumers ; it too , however , could not be much of a check on High Authority action if the two bodies moved on to a collision course — something , in fact , which never occurred . |
| 30 | Starting from the simplest and most chaste of forms , rooted in a combination of pioneering vernacular and colonial buildings , the American station swiftly moved on to a riot of revivalist and hybrid styles in a complex process of architectural grafting which mirrored the increasingly diverse origins of its immigrant population . |