Example sentences of "stepped on [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stepped on to the tall boy 's left ankle . |
| 2 | We started out into the snow and stepped on to the ice-covered apron ; that soon took the look off Nathan 's face . |
| 3 | He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic . |
| 4 | So Leonard was called by name from among the congregation , arose and ascended the steps , stepped on to the special box placed for short candidates like himself , and recited in Hebrew the traditional blessing before the reading of the Torah : |
| 5 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 6 | In 1988 , she stepped on to the ministerial ladder as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment , where she took charge of one of Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's pet hates — litter . |