Example sentences of "on to the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And you 've got ta be careful as well at night not to hang on to the tail lights of the thing in from of you
2 Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it .
3 There are , however , several situations in which the Commission is bound to pass information on to the competition authorities of member states .
4 This timely handbook should bring the tricks of the trade out of the realm of personal communication , and on to the lab benches of calcium 's ever-widening circle of admirers .
5 Catching on to the coat tails of the downsizing rush just in time , CA said that it was surprised by the demands from its users for it to develop migratory and Unix-based applications — a far cry it admits from its traditional stronghold in the mainframe market .
6 Staff may wish to consider passing on to the library copies of any newsletters which they receive as part of society memberships .
7 I refer , of course , to the discreet advertisements in the quality press , people mouthing fatuously ‘ Oh Barries ’ , when they see what shirt you 're wearing , the flyers Mercer manages to insinuate on to the information desks in some of the major London hotels , and so on and so forth .
8 The department is therefore able to impose central , corporate views , on to the business units at an early stage .
9 Secure the red numbers on to the side panels with royal icing , and then fix the lifebelts on to the boat in the same way , three on each side and two on the deck .
10 Then I had to place the silver-coloured piece on to the needle heads with the latches open and draw the knitting towards me so that the latches closed and the knitting slid on to the silver piece .
11 The best I have ever managed is to replace the stitches one by one on to the needle hooks with a transfer tool and even then I lost more stitches ( and had to ‘ save ’ them ) than I transferred successfully .
12 The group passes on to the Bank names of members eligible for a loan .
13 What these scholars did was to place their own ( negative ) evaluations of [ h ] -loss on to the speech communities of earlier centuries in which evaluations of this phenomenon were not necessarily the same .
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