Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 19 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 20 | Every user of LIFESPAN must log on to the system via a unique user name and password , allocated in this way . |
| 21 | The machine fits on to the tractor with Technorton quick hitch couplers . |
| 22 | Have at last worked out how it fits on to the trolley . |
| 23 | Beads of sweat continued to form and drip on to the table . |
| 24 | Howling jackals and hyenas disturbed their nights , and kites swooped on to the plate of any man foolish enough to leave his food uncovered . |
| 25 | He was relying on the earlier case of Nichol v Martyn [ 1799 ] 2 Esp 732 , but in Wessex Dairies Ltd v Smith [ 1935 ] 2 KB 80 Maugham LJ cast doubt on both those judgments and so far as the modern law is concerned they should not be relied on to the extent that they indicate the employee can canvass or issue circulars to customers of his employer before he leaves . |
| 26 | Firstly , CACI can build on to the shopping centres additional information relating to those outlets in a particular retail sector — this might be in terms of floorspace allocations , number of outlets or other attractiveness measures . |
| 27 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 28 | In the middle of her outbursts , she noticed that the paperweight had fallen on to the desk , badly marking the surface . |
| 29 | Rocks had fallen on to the road , cutting off the way forward . |
| 30 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |