Example sentences of "[vb -s] on to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felicity turns on to her stomach . |
| 2 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 3 | He goes on to my lap . |
| 4 | The book now goes on to my sister and what happens next is up to her . |
| 5 | Does it throw a light your story needs on to her character ? |
| 6 | holds on to its water . |
| 7 | A stream of beer runs across the table and drips on to his trouser leg . |
| 8 | She hangs on to his arm and |
| 9 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 10 | that like fixes on to her T-shirt , and twenty tapes and she 's got ta make twenty recordings ' worth , twenty tapes ' worth |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events . |
| 12 | It ‘ betrayed ’ Isildur to the arrows of the orcs ; it ‘ abandoned ’ Gollum , says Gandalf , in response to the ‘ dark thought from Mirkwood ’ of its master ; it all but betrays Frodo in the Prancing Pony when it slips on to his finger and proves his invisibility to the spies for the Nazgûl then present . |
| 13 | When the slow-moving potto is approached by an enemy , it curls up into a tight ball , clings on to its branch and lowers its head between its legs so that the back of its spiky neck is thrust towards the predator . |
| 14 | TOGETHER AGAIN Sead Hukanovic , weakened by the hell at Omarska , desperately clings on to his brother Nijaz at the camp yesterday |
| 15 | In an effort to escape this bombardment , perhaps even to doze awhile , he twists on to his side , burrows into the warm plump body of his wife , and throws an arm round her waist . |
| 16 | It is our right to decide who comes on to our land . |
| 17 | They 're grown on my neighbours fence and it comes on to my path . |