Example sentences of "and [vb base] on to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brush with water and press on to bottom of cake . |
| 2 | In my long experience of this species , I have noticed that as long as you have only a few juveniles over 1″ , these seem to stop growing at around 1.25″ , until an adult dies , whereupon a young fish will fill the gap and grow on to adult size at a remarkable rate . |
| 3 | The pupils of Ashcombe School , like the pupils of Dorking County Grammar , get good exam results and go on to university . |
| 4 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 5 | Ponyboy hopes he will finish school and go on to university , so that he can gain qualifications and lead a better life . |
| 6 | Let us just accept that the inclusion of education within social policy is the consequence of a comparatively arbitrary decision by the author , and move on to look at the difficult problems that would have to be faced if we were to define social policy in terms of public expenditure which contributes to public welfare . |
| 7 | Start from Sirius , and move on to Theta Canis Majoris ( 4.1 ) which is noticeably orange , and is in the Sirius field with × 8.5 , though just out of it with × 20 . |
| 8 | Now pick up your phone , call us , and move on to Stage Two . |
| 9 | Twice she made the kind of excuse that people made at cocktail parties when they wanted to extricate themselves from a conversation and move on to talk with another guest , but five minutes later he was back at her side again , bending closer and closer towards her so that she became unpleasantly aware of the stale , alcoholic aura of his breath . |