Example sentences of "on to [art] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were in Portsmouth only one battalion of foot , 600 pensioners , a few marines doing duty in the port , or ready for drafting on to the ships or frigates then fitting out … |
| 2 | As his corruption became evident , usually tolerant Brazilians flooded on to the streets and drove him out . |
| 3 | Then , to sober up , we 'd spill out on to the streets and do the street-lamps until dawn . |
| 4 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 5 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 6 | It may have become apparent to the counsellor that counsellees are ‘ locked ’ into feelings which are affecting the way they are leading their lives , but are apparently more content to hold on to the feelings than to resolve the difficulties which arise from them . |
| 7 | Spoon on to the apples and serve . |
| 8 | Holding his shoes , he stepped on to the stones and crossed the river carefully . |
| 9 | High-density lipoproteins ( HDLs ) are ‘ good ’ since they latch on to the LDLs and absorb them through the artery walls to be disposed of by other organs in the body . |
| 10 | Their status will be reduced to that of assembly-line workers , required to bolt their prescribed parts on to the pupils that pass before them on the conveyor belt . |
| 11 | They tub the velvet off their antlers on to the trees and take off the bark but , , they do n't do enough damage to matter . |
| 12 | More significantly the same civil law principle led Sir Robert Phillimore , in the Admiralty Court in The George and Richard ( 1871 ) L.R. 3 A. & E. 466 , 480 , to hold that a posthumous child , later born alive , ranks as a child of its father — in that case a ship 's carpenter who lost his life when his ship was blown on to the rocks and wrecked following disablement in a collision — for the purposes of Lord Campbell 's Act , the Fatal Accidents Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 93 ) . |
| 13 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 14 | Early one morning they tied their stripy woven bags of Tibetan salt on to the yaks and left for the south . |
| 15 | She made no attempt to wipe them away and one by one they dripped from her nose and chin on to the hands that lay folded in her lap . |
| 16 | Pipe bows on to the parcels and decorate the party hats . |
| 17 | Spoon the salad on to the poppadoms and serve immediately , garnished with sprigs of fresh coriander . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish you would n't , ’ said Caspar , but Fenella took a deep breath and clambered on to the sacks and grasped the window ledge , rubbing a bit of the window pane clear . |
| 19 | Two children were squirting water on to the cars that passed . |
| 20 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |