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 . |