Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [art] [noun] " 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 A woman of taste and energy , Mrs Baer goes right to the source — provincial villages in France — for her fine curtains , natural linens and variations on the theme of blue ( or beige or grey ) and white stripes so sought after by decorators .
5 Goes right to the spot .
6 Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole .
7 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 .
8 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 …
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ 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 . ’
12 At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway .
16 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 .
17 I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Cecilia got on to the platform .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 ‘ 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 . ’
24 We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army .
25 He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night .
26 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 .
27 She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin .
28 Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things .
29 If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it .
30 Every user of LIFESPAN must log on to the system via a unique user name and password , allocated in this way .
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