Example sentences of "and [adv] on to " in BNC.

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1 Looking Glass 's voice , though , dominated the council , and it was agreed that he should lead the Nez Perce on the Lolo trail over the Bitterroots , to join the Crows in Montana , and perhaps on to the ‘ Old Woman 's Country ’ , Canada , where Sitting Bull had sought sanctuary after the Custer massacre .
2 So , given the current limitations on my mobility , I apply a variation of the same technique , and convey myself , travelling from one silvery globule to another , and thus on to the nearest windowpane .
3 Earlier , Aindow told the court that he was hit on the left thigh by the side of the car , which knocked him into the side of road and possibly on to the kerb .
4 When people get into a stress-induced panic about their workload they may ( a ) begin to load more and more on to their own shoulders , and ( b ) feel so overwhelmed that they ca n't seem to get started .
5 Descent : Routes on the left half of the cliff join a terrace which leads easily left to the broad descent rake known as Ledge Route ; those on the right lead to the top of the buttress and directly on to Ledge Route .
6 He was the son of the Vicar of Dent , went to Sedbergh School and later on to Cambridge , where he became one of the most important founders of the present science of geology .
7 After that , they moved him to a building near Rue Michelle Boutros , and later on to the cellars of two different hospitals in West Beirut , both of them supplied by Tony 's company , AMA Industries .
8 We flew back to Mahe and straight on to Praslin for a stay of a few days with the intention of taking day-trips to the smaller islands of Cousin and La Digue .
9 Thus if the hirer subsequently pays off all the remaining instalments , ownership will pass to the hirer and straight on to the purchaser from the hirer .
10 Right : Vi-Spring will custom-make any of its bed bases to fit existing bedsteads , adding blocks underneath so that the divan fits snugly and securely on to the frame .
11 It 's going very fast , over the carpet , on to the chair , and now on to the table .
12 Now there are cars parked right the way up and even on to the roundabout , and I think a lot of these erm persons erm with the cars are probably from the Polytechnic .
13 I let my gaze wander to the open grassy strip at the side of the block , which was almost completely empty of life , and then on to the red buses and cars hurrying along the main road .
14 All lighting circuits are radial ones — that is one cable goes from the fuseway in the consumer unit to the first light position , and then on to the second , and so on to the last on the circuit .
15 No patients would be identified and the information would be confidentially passed to the British Medical Association and then on to the Home Office .
16 As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles .
17 My first visit is to the Red Cross , to pick up medicines requested on the previous patrol and then on to visit the Franciscan nuns , who run a school in Nicosia .
18 Much of the film shows the painter simply going about his task , first scratching outlines on parchment and then on to the canvas .
19 We fly from raw fish to live lobster , and then on to a ten-course Vietnamese .
20 ‘ Could you take me for a spin through the country , and then on to Sligo ? ’
21 Mackintosh hardly had time to notice the notices , on his way to open Les Miserables in Manchester , England , and then on to Tokyo for Miss Saigon .
22 Captured by Blackfoot or Atsina Indians when accompanying buffalo-hunters to Montana in the late eighteenth century , she was sold to eastern Indians and then on to a French-Canadian at Red River .
23 Our route takes us along the shores of Lake Zell , via Thumersbach , Schloss Kammer , Gerling Zum Ritzensee , and then on to Maria Alm .
24 The construction of the two lengths of the ‘ Leicester Line ’ , that from Leicester southwards to Debdale near Gumley first of all and then on to Market Harborough , between 1792 and 1809 ( the ‘ Leicester and Northants Union Canal ’ ) and that from Foxton Junction , just south of Debdale , over the uplands of South Leicestershire and North Northants .
25 Stage migration occurs when a peasant moves to a provincial town for some time and then on to the city .
26 She was bum up in the air , small head to one side ‘ gnawing her way through Donald 's portion and then on to the rest of the poisoned carcass of the chicken , which Henry added to her plate .
27 Feeling rather uncomfortably damp and dirty , she set off again , turning off presently into a deep wood , through which a footpath led to the deer-park and then on to Granny Fordham 's cottage .
28 Not looking at the cows , but keeping her eyes fixed straight ahead , she pushed her bike past them and then on to the footpath .
29 Roy signed for aspiring Ipswich Town , then still of the 3rd Division , but helped them into Division Two the next season and then on to the 1st Division Championship .
30 We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route .
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