Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] on to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car reels and swerves up on to the pavement , crashing into a shopfront and shattering itself and the window panes . |
| 2 | ‘ There ought to be a law against it , ’ replied Dorothy emphatically , as she banged knives and forks down on to the table . |
| 3 | Ulster protestantism is not contained within churches but spills out on to the streets . |
| 4 | Pain Teens open up in a cloud of dry ice that fills the stage and eventually leaks out on to the dance floor . |
| 5 | The Mermaid is at the end of the Old Town in a row of narrow houses which peters out on to the beach past the Fisherman 's Museum ( complete with stuffed albatross ) and the new Sea Life Centre . |
| 6 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 7 | Howard sinks back on to the day-bed . |
| 8 | That sweeps up on to the deck , |
| 9 | The first was a scene where Johnny has just cheated on his girlfriend Yvonne , and a tell-tale pair of panties falls out on to the floor . |
| 10 | Plants being potted on — removed into larger containers — can be taken out of pots , by up-ending them , and knocking the rim on the working surface , at the same time putting the other hand under the plant across the compost surface so that the root-ball falls out on to the palm of the hand . |
| 11 | They examined the rope again and , satisfied that they had seen everything , climbed the stone steps back on to the track high on the river bank . |
| 12 | However , it is a well known fact that all Spanish men are born with a football in their mouth and so I am sure his dormant skills will blossom forth as soon as he walks out on to the park . |
| 13 | This is afterwards , when he has got up from the couch , when he 's making a date for the next appointment and putting on his overcoat in the hall , returning to his ordinary guarded self before he walks out on to the street . |
| 14 | The air is still cool when he comes out on to the street , and the sunlight has that soft , early-morning freshness which makes even the cars and buses seem alert and hopeful . |