Example sentences of "[to-vb] on to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 3 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 4 | So I decided to go on to the council . |
| 5 | Does that mean that there is now a waiting list to go on to the waiting list ? |
| 6 | I now wish to go on to the order concerning access . |
| 7 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict . |
| 8 | In the case of the treaty it gave the opportunity for the Red Army to be created , which at a later date was able to go on to the offensive . |
| 9 | In 1899 , supported by the outbreak of the Boer War and the boom which followed , the situation looked more promising and Wilson made an effort to go on to the offensive , addressing a circular to leading shipowners asking for a conference to consider four points : a uniform rate of wages for vessels engaged in similar trades ; the supply of articles of agreement some time before men actually signed on ; the establishment of a manning scale , and the improvement of the provisioning of merchant vessels . |
| 10 | He says it must have been a little before the sixth hour when Aldhelm parted from him at Preston to go on to the ferry . |
| 11 | It also made me think that perhaps I had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore it 's going to go on to the confidence side of it . |
| 12 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 13 | THE first thing to go on to the canvas was a sketch in grey wax crayon , which mixes happily with the oils , whereas graphite would turn to gritty soot . |
| 14 | You should walk briskly every other day , and on alternate days walk for 20 minutes at a slower pace to build up a regular routine , until you feel ready to go on to the 30-day walk back to fitness programme at the end of this chapter . |
| 15 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 16 | Hugo was smoking a thin cigarette through a long cloisonné holder which he now began to wave about , causing highly aromatic ash to fall on to the sleeve of his green velvet jacket . |
| 17 | The whole column proceeded to fall on to the ground . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough is urging its residents to jump on to the recycling bandwagon . |
| 19 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 20 | It is not yet known how so many horses managed to stray on to the road which was a quarter of a mile from their paddock . |
| 21 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 22 | I refer , of course , to the discreet advertisements in the quality press , people mouthing fatuously ‘ Oh Barries ’ , when they see what shirt you 're wearing , the flyers Mercer manages to insinuate on to the information desks in some of the major London hotels , and so on and so forth . |
| 23 | Party leaders are concerned at the growing gap between Communists active in parliament in Warsaw , and those in the provinces who have been slow to catch on to the change . |
| 24 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 25 | The decision whether or not to come on to the Tour is not an easy one for a young black pro to take . |
| 26 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 27 | So presenting the centre line and okay we 're going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment , presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery . |
| 28 | Were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I 'm sure they would be picked up almost immediately . |
| 29 | Obviously we 're trying to make a homely atmosphere so that parents can come and go , er when new parents come on to the ward , when new patients come on to the ward , nursing staff maintain a , a close control and a close liaison with them , so were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I am sure they would be picked up almost immediately . |
| 30 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |