Example sentences of "[adj] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they broke out of the covert on to the open parkland the bright sun made them squint . |
| 2 | Flipping on to her back , she stared at the dark ceiling , listening to the faint night-time sounds from the creek , the far-off slap of water against the bows of the fishing-boats moored below . |
| 3 | ‘ What ? ’ he says accusingly , his anger at the teachers somehow getting displaced on to Marjorie . |
| 4 | Before we provoke any lawsuits , let's go back to what turned Rich on to playing guitar in the first place . |
| 5 | That is only the beginning — there is then the budding on to vigorous rootstock to see if the bloom 's promise and prospects are confirmed . |
| 6 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 7 | They will try to cram as many Minis as possible on to the Lake Windermere ferry and see how many consecutive journeys they can make . |
| 8 | down exhausted on to a chair . |
| 9 | In addition to his tile business , he also transfer-printed on to enamelled copper and porcelain , which he sold to other retailers and from his own shop in Harrington Street . |
| 10 | There is a sudden scuffle as one of the dancers collapses , delirious on to the stone floor . |
| 11 | Some of the latter were portable so that a current of air could be allowed to play direct on to the patients ' faces . |
| 12 | Re-fix the plastic rose direct on to the exposed timber noggin below the plaster . |
| 13 | As the slabs had been laid direct on to earth , a layer of hardcore was needed . |
| 14 | The present project aims to speed up the process at both the collection and analysis stages , by the development of software which will operate with speed , simplicity and flexibility , while the use of a portable computer will make it possible to enter material direct on to disc . |
| 15 | A woman — your mother — had been flung clear on to the soft shoulder . |
| 16 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 17 | It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors . |
| 18 | We pay fifteen percent extra on to all all the business you bring in above that figure . |
| 19 | Blobbed antiseptic on to the sodden blood-dangle |
| 20 | Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations . |
| 21 | It is significant that Kerschensteiner insisted on the practical and the theoretical being part of the same syllabus , with the former leading on to an appreciation of the latter : it meant that ‘ civic virtues ’ had to be practised in order for them to become meaningful . |
| 22 | A driveway of red earth led to a white two-storeyed mansion , with nine tall windows on the first floor , each leading on to a balcony . |
| 23 | Manchester Computing Centre is used to coping with multi-volume files , but a further problem arose when the file was too large to fit onto one of our backup cartridges ; as no one had ever needed to copy a file that large on to cartridge before , we had to devise a way of splitting it between two cartridges . |
| 24 | Cross these two over , placing the two stitches from the left on to the two empty needles at the right , finally place the remaining two stitches on to the two needles at the left . |
| 25 | A few miles further on , I took a left on to a B road which curved up even higher . |
| 26 | Jochim to Speedy on to Ormanroyd Thomson and again Greyson gets it back from Oldfield . |
| 27 | The creature is square on to me , spread across four inches of brick chimney breast . |
| 28 | It was n't exactly square on to the place where Sal 's Golf had gone for a roll , but it was n't far off . |
| 29 | Although at that time the Unix PC was the most successful Unix product ever , by May 1986 ( UX No 79 ) , AT&T was struggling to market thousands of the things held in stock — it had wanted to sell a million of them — and had co-opted Convergent on to the job too . |
| 30 | Having on hand someone as fast about the field as Back , so quick on to man and ball , could well prove an invaluable option . |