Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [verb] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 2 | He had brilliant powers of recovery , she realised when , with his look of surprise that she was clinging on to him barely discernible , he placed his hand lovingly over hers . |
| 3 | Perfect or absolute Truth , which is known by faith , is beyond our empirical grasp which means that we must act in the knowledge that we are holding on to such truth as we are able to apprehend in this world . |
| 4 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
| 5 | I believe I told you that we are to move on to the Astors ? ’ |
| 6 | On Oct. 1 Russian observers who had arrived in Baku , the Azerbaijani capital , on Sept. 28 to monitor the ceasefire , were reported as saying that in Kazakh district there were no hostilities and that they were to move on to Kubatlin district next day . |
| 7 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 8 | On several occasions they had er displayed guns where people would back into their driveway or er show some indication that they were going on to their property , then guns were revealed , people coming out of the the buildings out there with guns and what have you . |
| 9 | I 'd like to move a petition containing seven hundred and twelve signatures , residents of Broadstone who request the installation of a pedestrian crossing on Broadstone Lane , bottom end of Shakespeare Drive and propose that it is passed on to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 10 | Mr Mallory perceived that his ice was warm and half melted inside its chocolate coating , and that it was dripping on to his new suit . |
| 11 | They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) . |
| 12 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |
| 13 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 14 | I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth . |
| 15 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 16 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 17 | No the woman was n't in the shop you see and young girl another girl in there Julie and that and she was running on to Pam . |
| 18 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |
| 19 | If you are getting on to a diet which involves being very restricted for choice , and in some cases , missing out meals altogether , you are perfectly normal if you find it difficult to stick to this in the long term . |
| 20 | Well yeah if you 're looking on to it but not if you 're actually in it . |
| 21 | ‘ If you 're going on to Matson , you might find a bit of it useful . |
| 22 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
| 23 | They often looked very strained to Anna , as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life . |
| 24 | If they were held on to the animal or plant would die . |
| 25 | He was a good listener — and he was egged on to be a performer by his listeners . ’ |
| 26 | You 've got an S O four with two bonds on it and it 's holding on to a hydrogen |
| 27 | It looks as if it 's reeling on to that spool . |
| 28 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 29 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 30 | Sunday night rounds the event off with a bizarre juxtaposing of gigs : downstairs in the main hall it 's Mayhem Central , where the venue 's somewhat implausible design means that unless you 're stuffed on to the raised dancefloor you can see bugger all of the bands . |