Example sentences of "on to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time pipe ropes on to the lifebelts and for the anchor . |
| 2 | Place the royal icing in a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle and use to pipe tassels on to the towel , ties on to the shorts and arms on to the sunglasses . |
| 3 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 4 | You click on to the icons with a mouse to go from the word processor to a spreadsheet or to send a fax . |
| 5 | The trip down would start off quietly for a while , everyone busily engaged in talking with friends , but soon the holiday spirit would prevail and after the first stop , singing would start , and then arriving at our destination , coaches to be unloaded , mountains of food carted on to the sands , and the task of enjoying oneself began . |
| 6 | We 're going to go on to the effects of chilling and what damage does that do ? |
| 7 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 8 | By far the most effective way of changing the cubic capacity of the ocean basins is to vary the volume of the mid-ocean ridges ; increase in volume will cause a displacement of sea water on to the continents and vice versa . |
| 9 | After a few seconds he looked like a Dark Age warlord in mid campaign , in mid mop-up , on mired mountaintop , taking a glazed breather before moving on to the women and children . |
| 10 | An old , it looks like an old style take it on to the Antiques Road Show |
| 11 | Eight months previously ZTT 's Paul Morley had used the XL image factory and Katherine Hamnett to plaster fragments of his prose on to the chests of the nation 's youth . |
| 12 | It was less passive and more assertive , determined to hold on to the powers it had reclaimed from the executive in both foreign and domestic policy . |
| 13 | Packages are well described , prices given before the user is invited to download i.e. transfer the programs on to the users ' own disk . |
| 14 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 15 | Pre-rinse A short cold rinse , useful if you are likely to fill the machine up in dribs and drabs during the day as it prevents food from drying on to the dishes and cutlery . |
| 16 | As ‘ Sheila Take A Bow ’ climbed on to the playlists , rumours about a split in the Smiths camp again reached fever pitch . |
| 17 | ‘ Sphereality ’ was recorded live in concert and finds Crawlspace hanging on to the shreds of their psychedelic shape-shifting strum ( last featured on the 45 they made with Mooseheart Faith ) , only this time they are even more adventurous and what unravels goes far beyond any trip/trance acid groove . |
| 18 | If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she 'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions . |
| 19 | Holding on to the railings , he moved down the passage between the church and the presbytery . |
| 20 | When tasted and corrected , the mousse is piped on to the fillets which are then carefully folded back together . |
| 21 | Neither was able to brake and in seconds both vanished over the top of an ice cliff , falling on to the seracs below . |
| 22 | Some of the cost can be borne by the management company and passed on to the owners through the maintenance charge , but the proportion relating to the construction and pre-sales periods will have to be borne by ourselves as developers . |
| 23 | The success in 1991 of PRIME SUSPECT ( for Granada , and starring Helen Mirren ) again brought Lynda La Plante 's writing talent on to the screens of 17 million viewers . |
| 24 | well from the rough of off road racing we 're driving back on to the fairways for the start of our action round up this week … for a success story from the Broome Manor club at swindon … |
| 25 | But on to the sounds . |
| 26 | There were in Portsmouth only one battalion of foot , 600 pensioners , a few marines doing duty in the port , or ready for drafting on to the ships or frigates then fitting out … |
| 27 | And when the heavy rain 's heavy er it rises you see , well you 've got to put more power , switch more power on to the machines down below in the station . |
| 28 | Ulster protestantism is not contained within churches but spills out on to the streets . |
| 29 | In another case , a pimp repeatedly followed a girl to her house in an attempt to force her back on to the streets . |
| 30 | It was not right , it said , to criminalise ‘ the unrest , worries and questions which drove thousands of Dresdeners on to the streets ’ . |