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Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] on to " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground .
2	I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know .
3	Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to .
4	But obviously I 'd got on to something a bit more skilled and I still had this know all attitude .
5	I did n't want to risk Mrs Long , and Mrs Travers knew where I had moved on to , so giving her name could cause problems as well .
6	I had moved on to selling friends ' addresses to the Chief-Corporal , and in return for the names and numbers of two Sloane girlfriends I had got the bed nearest the stove .
7	Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them .
8	Joanne had handled the set-up of the press conference in Glasgow and I had gone on to Newcastle Airport to meet the plane there .
9	I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it .
10	I had held on to Lili , and Syl had brought me home insisting that our mothers should stay and go on to dinner with Lili and Robert and the gallery owner as planned .
11	At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness .
12	I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber .
13	I 've gone on to decaffeinated coffee I do drink decaffeinated
14	But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up .
15	I 've stayed on to help but not once have you met me so much as half-way .
16	I 've passed on to him the invitation to the training course on Saturday 5th September and asked him to let you know if he is able to attend .
17	I 've got on to something . ’
18	I have gone on to be exhibited there almost every year .
19	I have passed on to them the teaching and worship tapes sent on to e here and they have asked me to thank you sincerely and they ask you to continue to pray for them .
20	Her idol is the 1920s artist Varvara Stepanova , whose clothes designs she has reconstructed for museums and whose portrait , along with that of the revolutionary poet Mayakovsky , she has stitched on to another of her own red dresses .
21	I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth .
22	Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead .
23	Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road .
24	It was difficult to deny the belief she 'd held on to for so long .
25	So there 's no terrible worry in that way , that you 've passed on to anybody .
26	‘ You can tell him you 've slipped on to my payroll , ’ Silas said .
27	By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie .
28	Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings .
29	Shelley looked at the date she had scribbled on to the surgery diary .
30	She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose .