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Simple sentences
Tom went out onto the balcony.
Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.
I held onto the rope for as long as I could, but I finally had to let go.
It is dangerous to jump onto a moving train.
A cat jumped onto the chair and lay motionless.
I'd get a soup plate and then slide the glass very carefully over to the edge of the table, and let the water run into the soup plate - it doesn't have to run onto the floor.
Don't throw anything onto the floor.
Toss the gun onto the table.
She grabbed him by the hand and pulled him onto the boat.
I tossed my dog onto my bed.
In order to cross from one sentence to the other, Tom was stretching out his arm. Mary clung firmly onto it and jumped over the dot, avoiding to fall into the space.
With her unusually lively gestures, she pulled our attention onto her.
She was thrown back onto her own resources.
I forgot to stick the stamp onto the letter to be sent.
After a moment for recollection, I jumped nimbly through the window, straight onto the haystack in the farmard.
That actress made three entrances onto the stage.
He jumped onto the table.
Put it onto the table.
After the intersection, drive onto the highway.
They got onto the plane.
Tom flopped onto his bed and was soon fast asleep.
Climb onto the roof.
Movie subtitles
What's going on here is that you have all brought ridicule down onto the Latter-Day Saints.
And it's cold enough that the methane precipitates and drops, like raindrops, and falls out onto the surface of Titan.
With the vertical gun loaded and the impact chamber set, it's time to test and see if the organic material laced onto the projectile can survive a high-speed impact.
Get on the bed. Get onto the bed!
Wow, your dad's really laying it onto Cooper.
Empty your truck onto the street.
I think Barry's onto something here.
Get Interpol onto this Petrovic guy.
And then he lifted me up onto the most beautiful horse on the carousel, and he stood and he waved and watched as I went round.
And now onto more pressing matters.
Hey. Okay, I never wanted to know this much about gas chromatography or gear lubricants, but I think Mr. Reddington is onto something.
Notice how consciously this unconscious woman holds onto her bed. A person afflicted by hysteria always displays some artificial mannerisms.
Caskets filled with dirt were loaded onto the double-masted schooner,Empusa.
Meanwhile Black Larson stumbled onto Big Jim's mountain of gold.
Notice how consciously this unconscious woman holds onto her bed.
Push that over onto 27.
Here, take these, and hang onto them now.
Hold onto me.
First, I'll eat my haddock. then, if you are not going to turn me out onto the street.
Prepare to come onto starboard tack!
I'm far from leaving it onto you.
Hang onto yourself.
Hold onto yourself, fella.
Someday he's going to lay onto it and pull you right into his heart.
Quite a bit, and he's holding onto it plenty tight.
What's your use if you let nuts onto the lot?
Do you have the necessary clout and authority over that giant doorman to get me onto the lot?
Get onto the bed!
Why is this woman stuck onto a guard?
I never wanted to know this much about gas chromatography or gear lubricants but I think Mr. Reddington is onto something.
Hold onto me tightly, my ladies.
Because those guys got away, you're trying to pin it onto me. You're not gonna get away with it.
I couldn't fasten a dying man onto you.
Tie her onto the back of the wagon with your petticoat.
Hold onto my shoulder.
Hang onto her. -Something's happened to my mother-in-law.
Doc, what I'm trying to hang onto is worth a punch in the nose.
Are you glad you ran onto me?
Too bad I can't finish this experiment. I'm onto something.
News and current affairs
Forcing common standards means that Europe will fall further behind as member states shuffle their costs onto their neighbours.
Indeed, sovereigns are dumping a larger fraction of their public debt onto banks' balance sheet, especially in the eurozone.
Moreover, securitization contributed to bad lending: in the old days, banks that originated bad loans bore the consequences; in the new world of securitization, the originators could pass the loans onto others.
Conversely, Bhutan is among the top 20 most peaceful nations, but does not even make it onto innovation indices.
This week, world leaders have an opportunity to steer developments onto a new and more hopeful path when they meet in London to forge a new compact with Afghanistan.
As long as women are perceived to be the weaker sex, men and women alike will project their own feelings of vulnerability onto the female candidate.
Therefore, foreign speculators should, any day now, dump their dollar-denominated assets onto the market, and so bring about the dollar decline that they so fear.
Mortgage-backed securities were urged onto investors for whom they were too risky.
In earlier times, crises of much lesser intensity would have brought the military rushing onto the political stage, as happened in 1958, 1969, 1977, and 1999.
If they do nothing and simply hold onto the dollars, their losses will only increase.
If summer hurricanes push huge quantities of oil onto Florida's beaches and up the Eastern seaboard, the resulting political explosion will make the reaction to the financial crisis seem muted.
What better way for new US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, a card-carrying environmentalist, to make a dramatic entrance onto the world policy stage?
The conference in Montreal - the 11th such meeting - should look beyond 2012, so that the world gets onto a safe and sustainable long-term climate path.
Unfortunately, Khamenei thought so, too, and made sure that Ahmadinejad held onto his presidency.
America's departure from Mesopotamia will likewise put the burden of problem solving onto Iraqis and other regional players, leaving the US offshore to assist when and where it deems appropriate.
Until now, Congress's excessive political polarization has translated into an approach that has pushed more of the burden of adjustment onto those who are less able to bear it.
Shocked by the attacks of September 11, the US forced a new framework onto its still-unquestioned belief in the inexorable movement of history toward freedom.
What implications does China's emergence onto the global stage hold for southern Africa?
All policy options for Asia's central banks appear equally unattractive. If they do nothing and simply hold onto the dollars, their losses will only increase.
The border dispute remains unresolved, with periodic incursions by Chinese troops onto Indian soil and new irritants such as the anti-Chinese protests by Tibetan exiles who have been given asylum in India.