Example sentences of "on to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now er i i if you 're buying gilts individually , you 've got to know what you 're doing unless you want to hang on to them to the end of the terms , cos gilts are government securities , and they have the different rate , rates of return , different maturity dates . |
| 2 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 3 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 4 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 5 | Results have not gone in his favour in the short-term , but I believe the club will have a job holding on to him in the future . |
| 6 | I am in the possession of a number of splendid suits , kindly passed on to me over the years by Lord Darlington himself , and by various guests who have stayed in this house and had reason to be pleased with the standard of service here . |
| 7 | My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder . |
| 8 | Thorough research conducted by Newcastle polytechnic has been passed on to me by the Rev. Paul Nicholson , who has done sterling work to highlight the problems of those on income support . |
| 9 | Again Meredith Wyatt was almost on to her over the fence . |
| 10 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 11 | What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ? |
| 12 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 13 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 14 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 15 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
| 16 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 17 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 18 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 19 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
| 20 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |