Example sentences of "[pers pn] on to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage . |
| 2 | He nodded , and Lissa opened it , then added the key to her own set and tossed them on to a ledge next to her bag . |
| 3 | They happen to do something where there is an enormous organization geared up to pushing them on to a pedestal . |
| 4 | Why not pass them on to a hospital or children 's home where they will be treasured . |
| 5 | And but he can get them on to a disk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Vitor slept for almost an hour and so did Thomas , but both of them awoke as they neared the outskirts of Lisbon , just in time , for now Ashley needed directions , and Vitor navigated them on to a bypass and north along minor roads . |
| 8 | ‘ He shoved me on to a toilet seat and punched me , ’ Claire said . |
| 9 | Whatever information you can send me to help steer me on to a path to a more rewarding career would be most appreciated . |
| 10 | ‘ This means I miss my connection and then it creates a scatter at Middlesbrough as they try to fit me on to a train to get to Hartlepool in time . |
| 11 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 12 | But ask them why they interact in this way and they will eventually pass you on to a scientist who ( no matter how many equations they might try to confuse you with ) in the end can only say ‘ Well , that 's the way things are ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 14 | The dream-man called Duvall seized Jimmy around the neck in a way which was surely too painful to be a dream and yanked him to his feet , throwing him on to a desk . |
| 15 | As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles . |
| 16 | At last , with Greg 's help , they managed to get him on to a stretcher to which he was firmly secured with nylon strapping so that it was virtually impossible for him to move , then the stretcher was carefully lifted down from the jig and into the waiting ambulance . |
| 17 | It took four of them to lift him on to a trolley and take him away for observation , with the police riding shotgun at his side , and then things gradually returned to normal — or as normal as they could given the extraordinary circumstances . |
| 18 | Kathleen grabbed Amy and they lifted her on to a trolley and wheeled her into Resus . |
| 19 | He twisted a bathrobe belt around her neck and forced her on to a bed before raping her twice in July 1991 . |
| 20 | He put the plate down on the counter in front of him then lifted her on to a stool . |
| 21 | The girl has told police that as she walked along The Phelps , a man grabbed her and forced her on to a grass verge . |
| 22 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 23 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 24 | Two waiting men in boiler suits carefully wrapped the corpse inside a canvas swathe , lifted it on to a stretcher , removed it from the room on their way downstairs . |
| 25 | She darted past him and opened the door that led to the store-room , then helped somewhat ineffectually as he dragged the mattress through and hefted it on to a stack of boxes . |
| 26 | And the only thing that seems to stand in the way of doing anything commercially sensible with County Farms is that every time we deal with it , somebody says , ah , but it can only exist as an entity , let's keep it as that , let's pass it on to a trust , let's safeguard it , let's do this and that . |
| 27 | Maurin spun the gun in his hand , tossed it on to a stool . |
| 28 | We used to get a collar of rope , manilla rope , put it on to a truck and used to stretch it out first and then cut off the lengths . |
| 29 | Yeah if we could download it on to a P C |
| 30 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , near Liverpool , had almost sunk when rescuers managed to haul it on to a slipway and take it back to Douglas . |