Example sentences of "on to [art] [adj] " 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 | Having walked through the wood , she emerged on to a small , high plateau , from which a wide sweep of the countryside below was visible . |
| 7 | Suddenly he dashed across the street , dodging the traffic , and jumped on to a small motorbike . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bar/Breakfast room looking out on to a small patio . |
| 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 | Dexter drove through a small wood , emerging on to a small apron of gravel . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker . |
| 14 | An expectant silence fell over the room and Folly watched , mesmerised , as Luke Hunter stepped forward on to a small raised dais at one side of the pool . |
| 15 | Ace took her on to a small but discreet restaurant where the food was delicious , but she found she did n't have much appetite . |
| 16 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ; |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They claim that by the time a pushchair is passed on to a second or third child it 's brakes are often defective . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Vic threads the tunnels , switches lanes , swings out on to a long covered ramp that leads to a six-lane expressway thrust like a gigantic concrete fist through the backstreets of his boyhood . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We peeped through the purpose-made hole on to a long tyke and waited hopefully … bearded reedling ? water rail ? bittern ? |
| 28 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 29 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 30 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |