Example sentences of "[to-vb] on to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 2 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 3 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 4 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 5 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 6 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 7 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 8 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 9 | HTV 's advertising revenue rose 11.8 per cent to £101.8m , and the group managed to hold on to a creditable market share of 6.4 per cent as advertising has been sucked to South-east England . |
| 10 | Morris was at the heart of an amazing North defensive effort to hold on to a 24-17 half-time lead in the face of a strong second-half wind . |
| 11 | Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will . |
| 12 | In 1967 he wrote : ‘ Human beings will become so used to being crushed together that when they are on their own , they will suffer withdrawal symptoms : ‘ Doctor — I 've got to get on to a crowded train soon or I 'll go mad ’ . ’ |
| 13 | Erm erm two tapes on the end of my second tape , I 'm hoping to get on to a third but it depends how erm far this conversation goes . |
| 14 | At present , truckers can take a load from one country to another but face obstacles , as do airlines , in picking up a second load to take on to a third country . |
| 15 | Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play . |
| 16 | These fry are ready to move on to a larger tank . |
| 17 | He seemed about to move on to a third when Thomas gave a sudden yell . |