Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In my 35 years of dealing this is the greatest sculpture that has ever come on to the market , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 3 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 4 | And if memory serves ( what was she called , that girl who did the PR for Windscale , Sellafield I should say , and Aldershot FC ? ) , oh yes , Daphne Grierson , who has now moved on to greater things and is image adviser to Nigel Canada ( is that correct ? ) the teenage fiddle-player . |
| 5 | He has just finished his GCSE 's and has now moved on to ‘ A ’ levels at sixth form . |
| 6 | Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition . |
| 7 | The 12-year-old has now moved on to Branksome School , but still keeps in close contact with Philip , who lives next door . |
| 8 | She turns to the visitor , who has now subsided on to a settee . |
| 9 | Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ . |
| 10 | There is another possibility that they have n't mentioned because the book has n't come on to deal with it yet , but you should know what it is . |
| 11 | Prothero the demon-king has never bounded on to the stage more sulphurously than in Hugh Kenner 's The Pound Era : |
| 12 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 13 | They had been on stand-by since 10.00 a.m. and it was now after one o'clock , but they were as crisp and well-tailored as if they 'd just stepped on to the plane . |
| 14 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 15 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 16 | The car 's headlights picked out a road sign and she swung slowly left on to the narrow lane indicated . |
| 17 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 18 | Give him one part , now you hold that , I used to hook it on to a roller , tuck it over , pull it through and then you 've got it lined up hooked on to a roller . |
| 19 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 20 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 21 | At the same time the press had been tipped off that the Health Minister was leaving the country on holiday from Heathrow and half a dozen photographers had literally chased on to the runway to photograph him . |
| 22 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 23 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 24 | But Americans had already moved on to another massive and distinctively North American style , the station as office block . |
| 25 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 26 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 27 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 28 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 29 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 30 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |