Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 2 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 3 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 4 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 5 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 6 | The ROK armed forces were to be developed so as to be capable of handling internal dissent but the issue as to its capacity for reacting effectively to North Korea was side-stepped . |
| 7 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 8 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 9 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 10 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 11 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 12 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 13 | I bought a copy in of last weeks Daily Telegraph because interestingly enough , the press seems to be latching on to this er not playing by the rules . |
| 14 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 15 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 16 | The question now is not whether the other countries of Europe can absorb Germany ; it is about the costs and the benefits of latching on to her . |
| 17 | So backers latching on to John Dunlop 's Jazeel on his debut at Doncaster last month must have thought they had discovered a goldmine . |
| 18 | Striker John Borthwick wasted his side 's best opportunity of the half , latching on to a loose ball on the edge of the Stoke penalty area and making space for himself , only to fire lamely at keeper Ronnie Sinclair . |
| 19 | Ferguson marked his return by latching on to an Alan Main clearance to beat Murdoch to the jump on the edge of the box , and head in the fourth . |
| 20 | … which is not until Act 5 , when the poet re-enters briefly , prattling on to his captors ' exasperation . |
| 21 | And , I was prattling on to your dad , saying when we claimed it back when we claimed it back we 'll bring it early but |
| 22 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 23 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 24 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 25 | The sea crashing on to the rocks by the Giant 's Causeway is the only similarity for Steve Parcell with his last parish , Bournemouth . |
| 26 | Against this background , the British-born speakers show especially differentiated behaviour , sticking mostly to London English but occasionally manifesting strategic switches into Creole . |
| 27 | Left : In the kitchen , Philip painted an impression of sunlight filtering on to the wall in a style reminiscent of a Hitchcock film |
| 28 | Well you probably lose a bit , it 's not sticking properly to the wall . |
| 29 | Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green . |
| 30 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |