Example sentences of "[adv] on to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got to go right on to the end of whatever all this is , because I ca n't go back . |
| 2 | The carpenter , the " " riche gnof " " , is mentioned in the first three lines but the narration moves swiftly on to the portrait of Nicholas . |
| 3 | Sometimes , late at night , Odilo and I sneak out alone on to the roof of the boarding-house , while the Germans dream their dreams . |
| 4 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 5 | Would you really , and think carefully about this , trust all your personal information ; diary , telephone list and so on to the memory of that recalcitrant computer on your office desk ? |
| 6 | When a tank is in position at the top of the incline , its end faces exactly on to the end of its matching channel , with the two portcullis gates , one on the tank , the other on the channel , exactly opposite to one another . |
| 7 | ‘ However the discussion happily turned very soon on to the question of procedure , ’ Amery recorded , ‘ and the desirability , in which we all concurred , of the statement being so framed as to avoid our being pushed into a general election this autumn . ’ |
| 8 | You an also bed the crazy paving or slabs directly on to the surface of wet concrete , but you will have problems in achieving a completely level finish , because when you tap one piece down level it will force one of the previously laid pieces upward . |
| 9 | Long distance convoys from America and the U.K. traversed thousands of miles through hostile waters to converge in the Atlantic and land the assault forces directly on to the beaches of Morocco and Algeria . |
| 10 | Here , permission was neither required nor sought , and the position provided a steady stream of trains running in my direction , along Pyrmont Bridge , with the evening sunlight streaming from back left , directly on to the sides of the carriages . |
| 11 | Here , permission was neither required nor sought , and the position provided a steady stream of trains running in my direction , along Pyrmont Bridge , with the evening sunlight streaming from back left , directly on to the sides of the carriages . |
| 12 | She then brought her clenched fists down viciously on to the bridge of his nose . |
| 13 | The sloop apparently ran straight on to the top of the bank under sail in spite of the fact that the top of the bank is 10 m ( 30 ft ) above the level of high spring tides.Jutson ( 1939 ) has pointed to a series of generally narrow platforms cut mainly in almost horizontal rocks in New South Wales and extending up to a height of 10 m ( 30 ft ) or more . |
| 14 | Gemmell straight on to the head of Hill and Thomson dispossessed by Gemmell . |
| 15 | He fingered his tie , a particularly vivid one that day , and went straight on to the purpose of their meeting , which was to ask her to help Frank Shildon who was investigating aspects of the MacQuillan empire . |
| 16 | To overcome this problem one enterprising manufacturer now produces narrow contoured baskets which fit snugly on to the shelves of all popular designs . |
| 17 | Leaning the broomstick against the signpost , she grasped the handle and climbed carefully on to the top of the twigs and raised her head towards the words on the signpost arm . |
| 18 | With very large slices or bulky faced samples , a very simple method of producing a ‘ map ’ image is to place the face carefully on to the glass of a xerographic machine ( Ireland , 1973 ) . |
| 19 | Robyn blinked back unexpected tears and leant forward to place a log carefully on to the mound of hot red twigs . |
| 20 | After that , they moved him to a building near Rue Michelle Boutros , and later on to the cellars of two different hospitals in West Beirut , both of them supplied by Tony 's company , AMA Industries . |
| 21 | His lips were drawn back and his eyes flashed as one fist smashed hard on to the top of the snow-covered wall . |
| 22 | He drove her almost on to the drive of the last brown doll 's house . |
| 23 | And a blazing-hot drop of wetness fell precisely on to the top of my head , and began to sear its way down into my hairpiece . |
| 24 | She was bum up in the air , small head to one side ‘ gnawing her way through Donald 's portion and then on to the rest of the poisoned carcass of the chicken , which Henry added to her plate . |
| 25 | When the Germans , who controlled Tangier through General Franco , demanded Klein 's arrest , Wharton-Tigar in 1943 had spirited Klein out to Gibraltar and from there on to the safety of England where he had been given British citizenship . |
| 26 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 27 | This brings me neatly on to the exhibition of German aircraft and equipment held at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough during October and November 1945 . |
| 28 | Then , without warning , his legs were grabbed from behind , throwing him forward on to the pile of bodies . |
| 29 | All of this was to conquer one single problem : to put Armstrong safely on to the Sea of Tranquillity , and to get him ( along with that sliver of lunar rock ) safely back to Earth . |