Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moment he had jumped on to the horse 's back . |
| 2 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 3 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 4 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 5 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 6 | A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster . |
| 7 | One of the glasses had fallen on to its side and a red stain had spread from it on to the tablecloth . |
| 8 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 9 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
| 10 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 11 | The Doctor had fallen on to plush green grass . |
| 12 | The pottery was as late as any in Roman Britain and even included one sherd thought to be ‘ Romano-Saxon ’ since it had impressed on to it a Saxon type of stamp ; however , the vessel was wheel-turned and clearly of Romano-British manufacture . |
| 13 | Aggie had taken her hat and coat off and had dropped on to the settle , and as he entered the room she said immediately , ‘ Somethin' will have to be … ’ but paused as Millie came in on Ben 's heels , and she nodded towards her saying , ‘ Go and take your things off and set the tray . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 16 | Besides , it had come on to rain , and the prospect of arriving home soaking wet to find my housemates Trisha and Brian curled up in a post-coital stupor in front of the TV was more than I could bear , so I swallowed my pride and went back inside . |
| 17 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 18 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 19 | She had come on to Benedict 's from an interview with her bank manager . |
| 20 | Meanwhile one of the adjacent houses on Clifton Park Road had come on to the market and School had bought it . |
| 21 | That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down . |
| 22 | The lid had collapsed on to the remains , the sides had fallen outwards , but the two end pieces remained upright . |
| 23 | He had collapsed on to the sofa , holding his face with his hands , shrunken-looking . |
| 24 | He had turned on to his back and was sculling slowly with his forearms , face-up to the evening sky , the chill spreading in his limbs , spreading up under his ribcage , spreading behind his eyes . |
| 25 | The boy had turned on to his side , the fingers of one hand lightly touching his neck . |
| 26 | He had turned on to his stomach , flung his right arm over her — to make sure she did n't escape , Isabel assumed indignantly — and fallen instantly asleep . |
| 27 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 28 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Hampstead had been purchased with the now substantial royalties from Paul 's books , also the first excursion Dinah had made on to the stage since her marriage and the birth of three children . |