Example sentences of "we [vb past] on to " in BNC.

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1 We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before .
2 Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip .
3 And so , refreshed , we passed on to Hong Kong .
4 The YTS we passed on to our Plant Raiser was no better .
5 We passed on to the family all the information we had .
6 We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army .
7 Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded .
8 We got on to dreams because Vern 's interested in them too .
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 Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet .
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 right then we got on to talking about him going into the gents and what he does , he do n't shut the door and such
13 and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree
14 Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ?
15 After a gap of two or three months we moved on to Chris Kinsey , who 's done the last six or seven Stones albums among other things .
16 Next we moved on to the ‘ enlarger ’ on the E6000 .
17 We all started in the ‘ General Room ’ where we drew cones , cubes and pyramids , then we moved on to heads , hands and feet from plaster casts .
18 With that behind us we moved on to the interaction of language and context which defines language function ; to the possibility of establishing overall structures of discourse related to particular discourse types ; and to conversational mechanisms ( although they might also be regarded , like cohesion , as formal devices linking smaller units ) .
19 Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow .
20 We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge .
21 ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation
22 We came on to the dirt road and a woman in a fluttering robe of pale pink organza walked towards us .
23 Refreshed , we drove on to Shwebo and had breakfast with a small group of SPG missionaries who had camped out there , looking after the stream of refugees hoping to be flown to India .
24 We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines .
25 From Monks Wood , we drove on to Wood Walton Fen , another National Nature Reserve , again managed by the Nature Conservancy Council .
26 We drove on to the rave and left her walking , thumbing a lift . ’
27 At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral .
28 We followed on to the patio and spontaneously broke into an impromptu dance in our bare feet on the cold concrete , much to the delight of the crowd ’ .
29 As we walked on to the jetty , I was watching carefully to make sure none of my trunks was left on board .
30 However we pressed on to the increasing discomfort of our training lads .
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