Example sentences of "on to the [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Jack , shut up , ’ she told him good-naturedly , and waited as he dropped on to the sleeping-bag . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He saw a uniformed chauffeur polishing the bonnet of the Daimler just before he turned under a stone archway on to the drive . |
| 16 | Exactly one minute later , he backed it out on to the drive and turned round . |
| 17 | She switched off the engine , glanced at herself in the driving mirror and got out , letting Bunny jump on to the drive . |
| 18 | The collapsed roof tumbled on to the drive and wrecked his car . |
| 19 | He drove her almost on to the drive of the last brown doll 's house . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) |
| 23 | It , however , prefers to shift blame on to the customer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They can afford to buy in large quantities and pass the price benefits on to the customer . |
| 27 | The fact that they carry large stocks and are generally located in prestigious and expensive locations means that overheads are high and these must be passed on to the customer . |
| 28 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 29 | For example , if the broker acquired the stock with a view to selling it on to the customer at a profit , it would have to disclose this fact , the historic price of the stock , the current market price of the stock and the profit on the sale . |
| 30 | ‘ It would lead inevitably to higher costs which would be transferred on to the customer as an increased cost of electricity , ’ he said . |