Example sentences of "on to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In anticipation of bumper Christmas sales , new stock had been crowded on to every available surface and spilled across the floor .
2 hold on to every difficult breath
3 You find yourself hanging on to every last minute together . ’
4 ‘ I want to put foundation garments on to every pretty woman in Leningrad . ’
5 I launched it on to a small lake and , lying flat on its wooden platform , pressed my face close to the water .
6 Without waiting to be shown , she walked through the primitive kitchen and on to a small balcony perched perilously above the red-tiled roofs of the houses below .
7 She staggered over to the freezer , climbed on to a small stool by its side , unwrapped the packages to reveal frozen packs of my beefburgers , and placed them in the freezer , leaning over it until she was almost inside .
8 She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively .
9 Dexter drove through a small wood , emerging on to a small apron of gravel .
10 The window gave on to a small lead roof beyond whose parapet I could see the topmost branches of the elm tree , the ornate brick chimneys of my own House — School House .
11 Bar/Breakfast room looking out on to a small patio .
12 Suddenly he dashed across the street , dodging the traffic , and jumped on to a small motorbike .
13 Glue the fabric for the bow on to a small piece of card , cut out and attach to the bear 's neck by gluing the centre of the bow only .
14 Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker .
15 Go through it to a track on the edge of the wood which then forks left up away from the edge of the wood to a clearing and then on to a second gate .
16 The jockey went on to a second success for Playing Truant 's trainer David Gandolfo , partnering Ballyroe Lady to victory in the Tattersalls Mares Only Novices ' Chase .
17 As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative .
18 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 .
19 Having depicted the palace not just as a multitude of busy people and face-to-face relationships , but as an arrangement ( dispositio ) , an apparatus to be efficiently designed and maintained , Hincmar moves on to a second institution , the assembly .
20 whether they were in favour of going on to a second cycle of review and reporting and if so whether reports should deal only with a particular aspect of the school ;
21 We peeped through the purpose-made hole on to a long tyke and waited hopefully … bearded reedling ? water rail ? bittern ?
22 Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing .
23 I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree .
24 Some 25 years later interviewers are still essential at bureau level but the complexity of the task that they carry out has shifted the core role on to a professional manager who is needed to galvanise the efforts of the team in order to meet growing demands .
25 We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion .
26 Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 .
27 The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy .
28 The bill has cross-party support and provides the Government with the means to put early legislation on to a crowded timetable .
29 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 ’ . ’
30 In the legend of Theseus , in Greek mythology , he prevented himself from getting lost in the Cretan labyrinth by holding on to a silken thread .
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