Example sentences of "on to the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We went on to the villa which had been requisitioned for the Bologna branch of the Allied Screening Commission : like all the villas requisitioned by Germans and members of the Allied forces alike , it was far too splendid for the purpose to which they put it . |
2 | BIG Ron Atkinson took a microphone on to the Villa Park pitch to promise fans that he and chairman Doug Ellis would pull together next week to sign Dean Saunders from Liverpool . |
3 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
4 | It is a collection of those countries which generally have two things in common : they abut on to the ocean , and they are in some positive — always positive — way economically or politically vibrant . |
5 | Yes , the Mario Brothers have wormed their way on to the PC ! |
6 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
7 | Ace slid to the floor and cleared a space around her by tossing dead creatures on to the pile of bodies in the middle of the cabin . |
8 | When he lowered Grainne on to the pile of thick fur rugs before the fire , he was trembling , but when he stood up and began to unfasten his own clothes , he did so with a calm sureness and a gentle authority . |
9 | Then , without warning , his legs were grabbed from behind , throwing him forward on to the pile of bodies . |
10 | Hooking the shirt off over his dripping head , he dropped it on to the pile . |
11 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
12 | At the same time pipe ropes on to the lifebelts and for the anchor . |
13 | Place the royal icing in a piping bag with a fine writing nozzle and use to pipe tassels on to the towel , ties on to the shorts and arms on to the sunglasses . |
14 | ‘ Jack , shut up , ’ she told him good-naturedly , and waited as he dropped on to the sleeping-bag . |
15 | With the whole fleet converging on the first mark it can often get rather chaotic , as everyone is eager to blast off on to the reach . |
16 | The exit on to the Naas road was the most dangerous in Kildare . |
17 | Nobles attending the court were ordered to go first to the apartments of Dara Shukoh and there make their morning obeisance before going on to the Diwan-i-khas to greet Shah Jehan . |
18 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
19 | He saw a uniformed chauffeur polishing the bonnet of the Daimler just before he turned under a stone archway on to the drive . |
20 | Exactly one minute later , he backed it out on to the drive and turned round . |
21 | She switched off the engine , glanced at herself in the driving mirror and got out , letting Bunny jump on to the drive . |
22 | The collapsed roof tumbled on to the drive and wrecked his car . |
23 | He drove her almost on to the drive of the last brown doll 's house . |
24 | At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution … |
25 | He said that because of competitive pressures the company , which had already purchased its summer shoe stock and most of those for the autumn season , was unable to pass the increase on to the customer and gross margins suffered as a result . |
26 | Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer ) |
27 | It , however , prefers to shift blame on to the customer . |
28 | In general those operating from grass strips ( mostly those below the best fit line ) seem to be passing at least some of the savings on to the customer . |
29 | Food industry sources described the prediction as ‘ alarmist ’ and insisted only part of the increase in the farmgate prices would be passed on to the customer . |
30 | They can afford to buy in large quantities and pass the price benefits on to the customer . |