Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen .
2 There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said .
3 Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship .
4 Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole .
5 Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect .
6 Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park .
7 He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down …
8 A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons .
9 Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off .
10 ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’
11 Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists .
12 ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’
13 At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood .
14 She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin .
15 They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark .
16 We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army .
17 They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands .
18 On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout .
19 Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next .
20 I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office .
21 I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale .
22 Cecilia got on to the platform .
23 And then I got on to the , I was convenor of the housing allocation committee for very many years .
24 There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch .
25 Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion .
26 We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity .
27 The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway .
28 It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house .
29 He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount .
30 ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’
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