Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 2 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 3 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 4 | The captain of the guard led them on to the scaffold , a scrawny-faced clerk gabbled out the sentence of the court . |
| 5 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 6 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 7 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 8 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 9 | He was interested to see Ray 's collection , presented to Samuel Dale just before he died , who later passed them on to Chelsea . |
| 10 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 11 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 12 | He was accused at his trial in 1990 of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances ( activities carried out by Tibetans in 1988 in support of independence ) and passed them on to others , thus violating the ( laws of ) secrecy ’ . |
| 13 | He was accused of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances and passed them on to others , thus undermining the law and violating the ( laws of ) secrecy . ’ |
| 14 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 15 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 16 | But even among the backward and traditional , two kinds of country people were the major pillars of the ancient ways — the old and the women , whose ‘ old wives ’ tales ' passed them on to new generations , and occasionally , for the benefit of city men , to collectors of folklore and folksong . |
| 17 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 18 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 19 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |
| 20 | Mrs Scamp levered them on to her face and I handed her the Access card . |
| 21 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 22 | By October , though , these wally wagons had given way to splinter-thin rowing shells in which muscular lads sweated and gasped over their oars while a weedy wimp goaded them on to still greater suffering . |
| 23 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 24 | But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’ |
| 25 | Then I want you to pass them on to me . ’ |
| 26 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
| 27 | A Will is a commonsense and legal way to ensure that any possessions you have are given to the people you wish to pass them on to . |
| 28 | Resolving to pass them on to someone else as soon as possible , Robert took hold of both locket and manuscript and put them in his jacket pocket . |
| 29 | Planting consists merely of tossing them on to the surface of the water . |
| 30 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |