Example sentences of "and on to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat unmoving , adding up all the factors over and over , getting the same answer , while Posi took us up into Highlight and on to the first Netline of our route . |
| 2 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 3 | The catamaran shook its bows against the swell , then she was through the wind and on to the other tack with the sails drawing sweetly . |
| 4 | The A45 was impassable after a lorry overturned in a crash , spilling 20 tonnes of grain across three lanes of the eastbound carriageway and on to the outside lane of the west . |
| 5 | In the meantime , public relations impresario , Regis McKenna Inc , has been hired to distract attention away from ACE 's bevy of erstwhile operating systems and on to the Advanced RISC Computing hardware . |
| 6 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 7 | Donna twisted about in the bath , sending water sloshing over the edge and on to the cork-tiled floor . |
| 8 | Her gaze went , unbelievingly , from the pink and blue polka-dot material draping the dressing-table to the bright pink carpet patterned with impossible blue roses and on to the royal-blue wallpaper with its equally impossible pink pansies . |
| 9 | We pedalled eastwards , first past the new Royal Palace — a weird , menacing building with bats hanging in the trees like handbags — and on to the great domed stupa , or Buddhist monument , of Bodnath . |
| 10 | From here I walked on to Men Scryfa , an iron age monument and on to the Nine Maidens prehistoric stone circle . |
| 11 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 12 | She dashed clear of the control room and on to the second half of the observation gallery , thirty metres above the main executive transporter bay . |
| 13 | One by one we clambered out of the boat and on to the slippery rocks of an inlet . |
| 14 | The Provost barked an order and the red-hooded executioner turned , wished us good morning , flicked his whip and urged the cart through the gates of the prison and on to the winding track down to Montfaucon . |
| 15 | ‘ He was one of my boys , ’ she said in explanation to the CID sergeant who was leading the party as they bumped over the rough road , through the thick mud and on to the dry embankment . |
| 16 | One night he went to her house , poured paraffin through the letter-box and on to the front door , and set it alight . |
| 17 | Go straight through into the hall and on to the front door , and let us in . |
| 18 | Karl tucked Erika 's arm under his as they crossed the bridge over the green , splintered ice of the Spree which formed a chill moat around the great museums , by the great dome of the Protestant Cathedral , and on to the broad stretch of Unter den Linden . |
| 19 | When Lili came to stay the emphasis shifted slightly , away from me and on to the strange woman . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The grain spread across three lanes of the eastbound carriageway and on to the fast lane of the west . |
| 21 | He let the car forwards , down the hill , and on to the white road that led across the lake bed . |
| 22 | For those who wish to take a car close and then walk to the top of the hill without too much difficulty , take the A836 to Loch Loyal near Lettermore and climb straight into the corrie Loch Na Creige Riabhaich and on to the main summits . |
| 23 | He fell silent as he wrestled the van round a corner and on to the main road . |
| 24 | The lorry rolled down the lane and on to the main road . |
| 25 | He opens with a history of homebuilts dating from Sir George Cayley ( who would have approved the sage advice to get an experienced hand to make the first test flight of your creation , though in his case the unfortunate man was more adept at handling a coach-and-four than a flying machine ) and proceeds through the Flying Flea era to the post-war rebirth in France and the USA , thence to Rutan and the foam/fibreglass revolution , and on to the 1980s emergence of IFR-capable alabaster-smooth hot-rod kitplanes that will blow the socks off anything Vero Beach and Wichita are ( or more accurately are n't ) building . |
| 26 | He had successfully led the School from the dark days of war , through a time of austerity thereafter , and on to the easier but still challenging years of the 1950s . |
| 27 | Place a little white royal icing into a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle and pipe decorative loops on to the large balloon where the different colours join , and on to the smaller balloons . |
| 28 | There was — a gulp and a yell and the rest of the glass ( he had drunk at least some ) flew up and out and on to the sanded floor of the dining area . |
| 29 | From the savage rallying cry of ‘ Revolution Calling ’ , through the incredible atmospherics of ‘ Spreading The Disease ’ and on to the concluding ‘ Eyes Of A Stranger ’ , Queensrÿche play its cold glare like the stunning tapestry it is . |
| 30 | From the savage rallying cry of ‘ Revolution Calling ’ , through the incredible atmospherics of ‘ Spreading The Disease ’ and on to the concluding ‘ Eyes Of A Stranger ’ , Queensrÿche play its cold glare like the stunning tapestry it is . |