Example sentences of "they onto " in BNC.
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| 1 | Icy drops of water fell from them onto her sun-warmed arms . |
| 2 | If you 've forgotten to buy a card and the shops are all closed , simply cut out some funny or pretty pictures from magazines , paste them onto a piece of card and then write your own personalised message inside . |
| 3 | With larger seeds you may find it easiest to use your finger and thumb and drop them onto the compost . |
| 4 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 5 | There they sold half their animals , bought goods with the proceeds , loaded them onto the remaining animals and returned to Kufra , resuming the annual north-south movement . |
| 6 | Despite elaborate efforts by experts to blast and block underground conduits housing dangerous flows , to force them onto open ground higher up the 10,948-foot volcano , where they could cool and harden , the lava inexplicably broke onto the surface itself . |
| 7 | She fumbled , dropping them on the floor and picking them up , sorrying wildly , before shoving them onto the rack with the others . |
| 8 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 9 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
| 10 | Working frantically and fast Franca dragged her clothes out of the wardrobe , carried them onto the landing and threw them down the stairs . |
| 11 | The goons have discovered part of an old dismantled ladder which we 'd used for earlier trials and we think it may put them onto something . ’ |
| 12 | Their functions would include taking over and improving public-sector estates and passing them onto new owners , such as private landlords , housing associations and tenant co-ops . |
| 13 | In we would climb , rolling up hats and coats and flinging them onto the back seat . |
| 14 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 15 | In practice , this means that you have to show your own original recordings either by playing them directly off the camcorder onto the colour television , or by first copying them onto one of your table-top machine cassettes for showing along with your other tapes . |
| 16 | This encodes the audio and video signals together and puts them onto the tape via the high-speed rotation of the head-drum ; it is this ‘ high writing speed ’ recording method which greatly improves the audio quality compared with VHS mono . |
| 17 | Camcorders can play back their recordings immediately after they have put them onto the tape . |
| 18 | Having recorded the guide-track , you can use it directly to cue the sections of music into place as you pre-record them onto the sound tape , or you can convert them first to tape-counter references ; another alternative is to mark their positions on the back of the tape with a wax pencil or felt-tip pen . |
| 19 | If you have any further donations of clothes and intend passing them onto Jean at Church would you either leave them in your car boot or give Jean a call first , so she can pick them up … ! |
| 20 | One successful American developer sold practically all his second phase units in this way before he actually put them onto the market . |
| 21 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 22 | When they had eaten breakfast , Jack ushered them into the garage , know the car , and pushed them onto the floor , behind the driver 's seat . |
| 23 | Among the most important of these indirect effects is the role which test cases can play in politicising issues by forcing them onto the political agenda and once there in keeping them alive . |
| 24 | Several birds , including crows and gulls , carry shellfish into the air and drop them onto hard surfaces in order to break them open . |
| 25 | Let them dry thoroughly , tack them onto a wall and note the difference in colour shade , value and vibrancy . |
| 26 | I now wean them onto prepared food . |
| 27 | The Black Amulet is good for reducing your own wounds and shifting them onto the enemy , pushing up your all important combat result . |
| 28 | When I am satisfied that I have enough information , after maybe seven or eight sittings , I will square the drawings up and transfer them onto board . ’ |
| 29 | IBM Corp and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp were yesterday due to launch their joint venture to market systems for duplicating audio compact disk recordings in retail stores : the idea is that record companies could eliminate the need to press hundreds of thousands of copies of major recordings — instead the store would tap into central databases at each record company to collect the tracks requested and record them onto a blank disk ; although no pilot systems have yet been launched , IBM said the system also could be used to make and sell computer software and video games on demand ; the IBM-Blockbuster system is expected to be designed to distribute albums in original form , rather than enabling customers to mix and match their choice of tracks , and negotiations are reportedly already under way with several record companies ; a typical CD would take about six minutes to make , complete with the glossy packaging buyers expect . |
| 30 | The most familiar , though normally invisible , additional distortion is that of the wide-screen processes , which squash the images sideways to fit them onto 35mm film and stretch them again for projection . |