Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it spoilt it a bit when that guy in the glasses came on half way through . |
| 2 | Miranda walked on next to Miles . |
| 3 | Not for him Classical decoration hung on utilitarian steel or concrete frames . |
| 4 | Work tables have plates and salvers , long-rotted tubers and roots , tureens and similar on them ; an array of evil-looking cleavers , serrated spoons , filleting knives and other implements throng the walls , hung on barbed and blackened hooks . |
| 5 | A naked bulb of high wattage hung on half-exposed wires from the centre of the sloping ceiling . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , I told myself , the success of Aunt Louise and me living together hung on such fragile things as unselfishness and the making of adjustments ; and with shame I led my thoughts towards all those people living squashed together in real discomfort and privation . |
| 7 | A big , unframed abstract hung on one wall , its colours echoing the cream and tan of the rest of the room . |
| 8 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 9 | Even now , he hung on seven weeks more . |
| 10 | In the ballroom , the Venetian mirrors which lined the walls had been smashed ; doors hung on broken hinges ; the place stank of mice and damp . |
| 11 | I panted madly and hung on cold , clammy jams , three feet below the crux . |
| 12 | £250,000 hung on these two putts . |
| 13 | Everything hung on this final event of the year . |
| 14 | Everything hung on this jump if the RAF were to stand much chance in the rest of the competition . |
| 15 | He switched on all the lights downstairs and put the kettle on to boil . |
| 16 | She switched on all the lights and the room sprang into familiar life . |
| 17 | Australian Pinot Noir/Chardonnay £5.99 A wonderful golden honey colour with lots of bubbles that kept on fizzing right to the end of the glass . |
| 18 | She kept on promising wheat , sari , ration card . |
| 19 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 20 | The roof went on first . |
| 21 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 22 | But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed . |
| 23 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 24 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 25 | I 've got nothing other , I do n't know whether anybody 's aware of what went on last Wednesday and probably that , I mean there could have been there was a , sort of a , a cable that , a mains cable that heated up and started smoking and er , we had to deal with that . |
| 26 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 27 | Their forced retreat , with a rope too short to reach the ground , took on epic proportions . |
| 28 | The rough emergency airfield was crowded with several hundred people , mainly women and children , and in the whole day only two planes came in , dropped some cases of food , took on wounded and as many women and children as they could pack in , and were quickly off again . |
| 29 | On the 1st March she took on wider responsibilities as Head of Scripture Union 's Development and Communication Department . |
| 30 | But the trouble he took on each occasion was the same . |