Example sentences of "were [verb] on to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naval vessels were also contributed by Belgium and Italy ( which both on Aug. 21 confirmed that minesweepers sent initially to the eastern Mediterranean were to proceed on to the Gulf ) ; Greece announced on Aug. 20 that a frigate would join the naval forces in the Gulf , and Spain made a similar announcement the following day . |
| 2 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 3 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 4 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 5 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 6 | Two large boulders were rolled on to the road and they sat down to wait , guns at the ready . |
| 7 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 8 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 9 | Then , when her legs were lifted on to the couch , the croak turned into a stilted scream as she cried , ‘ No ! |
| 10 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 11 | Cargoes were off-loaded on to the stone docks , and again they caught the sharp pungency of unknown spices . |
| 12 | The airport control tower was built out from the roof of the house and several huts of varied design were built on to the ground floor as reception , customs and office areas . |
| 13 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 14 | Other women were drawn on to the paper , but as on It they were supposed to know their place . |
| 15 | Additional poems bearing individual dates were transcribed on to the endpapers of the British Library copy from a manuscript owned by Dixon 's niece , a Mrs Eliza ( née De Langle ) Bunce , possibly the child of an unidentified sister . |
| 16 | It is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the , the , the , the , erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets . |
| 17 | The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication . |
| 18 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 19 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 20 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 21 | By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan . |
| 22 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 23 | After a 20-minute battle against what he described as ‘ the roughest seas I have ever seen at Redcar ’ , he and the unconscious youth were flung on to the beach by the waves . |
| 24 | But more people were coming on to the paper . |
| 25 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 26 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 27 | Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it . |
| 28 | But the bills were dropping on to the doormat and I felt I had no choice . |
| 29 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 30 | The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency . |