Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But those on the list who actually applied , as opposed to expressing vague interest , had no way of knowing whether their completed application forms had been weeded out or simply thrown on to the paper mountain along with everyone else . |
| 2 | This in effect meant that PFF actually did 45 sorties , but please to remember that few Pathfinder aircrew elected to opt out at the 45 mark and most carried on to the magic 60 , And further take note that over 100 PFF aircrew managed the ton ( 100 sorties ) . |
| 3 | The San Giorgio case is also of interest for present purposes in that it accepts that Community law does not prevent a national legal system from disallowing repayment of charges where to do so would entail unjust enrichment of the recipient , in particular where the charges have been incorporated into the price of goods and so passed on to the purchaser . |
| 4 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 5 | He took his time ; first cutting the cigar , then heating its tip with a succession of matches that he carelessly and provocatively dropped on to Wavebreaker 's scrubbed deck . |
| 6 | The beards come in a range of attractive colours ; pink to match your top , green , surfing blue , day-glo yellow and natural brown for those who desire a more rugged countenance , and once strapped on to the face with its Gortex-coated elastic strap , the beard provides the wearer with complete all-round chin exposure protection . |
| 7 | For the first time , the marks made by the artist could be accurately and directly reproduced on to plates . |
| 8 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 9 | Led by Geoff Miller as Botham was attending Viv Richards ' wedding — to which fifty people were invited and two thousand turned up — they beat the Leeward Islands and then moved on to Antigua for the inaugural Test at St John 's , West Indies ' first new Test ground since the opening series of 1929–30 . |
| 10 | The man replaced the blanket , and then moved on to another corpse . |
| 11 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 12 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 13 | After breaking the windows , enraged by the early departure of the guests , the mob set fire to two meeting places and then moved on to Priestley 's house . |
| 14 | He began with lipstick tubes , which were too light , and then moved on to sawing the ends off motorcycle handlebars . |
| 15 | He learned to fly on Caudrons at Hendon and then moved on to BE.2s . |
| 16 | A Chicago engineer and architect , he started collecting in the 1950s the books he loved as a child , and then moved on to literature , science and judaica . |
| 17 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 18 | To stake out part of his frontier he had spent Christmas 842 with Abbot Hugh at St-Quentin , and then moved on to Valenciennes . |
| 19 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 20 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 21 | I tugged and lugged the dinghy until it was sliding backwards down the bank , and then held on to the painter , digging my heels in , leaning back to prevent too fast and splashy a launch . |
| 22 | They felt the bag being carried , put down , picked up , carried again , put down , picked up one more time , and then thrown on to something soft . |
| 23 | But normally the information on the recording forms is checked and corrected first and then entered on to computer after the excavation has been completed . |
| 24 | He had ‘ found himself ’ young and firmly held on to that ; as he was to do with remarkable consistency . |
| 25 | He was appointed by Chris Patten to the Conservative research department but soon moved on to be an adviser to Cecil Parkinson at the Department of Energy . |