Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for him Classical decoration hung on utilitarian steel or concrete frames . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A naked bulb of high wattage hung on half-exposed wires from the centre of the sloping ceiling . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I panted madly and hung on cold , clammy jams , three feet below the crux . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She kept on promising wheat , sari , ration card . |
| 8 | Their forced retreat , with a rope too short to reach the ground , took on epic proportions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the first decades of the twentieth century sex education took on great importance within public debate . |
| 11 | As the pain became more intense there was less and less space for his mind to wander over things , undone things that suddenly took on ridiculous and unrealistic urgency , but his thoughts were still churning with his innards and he could not keep out stray fragments of enacted scenes any more than he could stop the brilliant black fish from swimming in the air past his eyes . |
| 12 | The Petersburg Soviet took on quasi-governmental functions , including the setting up of an armed militia . |
| 13 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |
| 14 | Those located at holiday resorts took on extra staff to deal with the increased demand brought about by an influx of summer visitors . |
| 15 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 16 | The UFC 's subsequent system rewarded those who took on extra students cheaply . |
| 17 | The resignations prompted a technical Cabinet reshuffle in which serving Cabinet ministers took on extra responsibilities , notably Famara Ibrahima Sagna , who added African Economic Integration to his existing responsibilities as Economy , Finance and Planning Minister . |
| 18 | In the Jon Hollingworth Inter-Departmental cup finals at Hammersmith , ITD took on Environmental in a battle for this year 's honours . |
| 19 | Royal favour took on substantial material form in wardships , pensions , annuities , leases of Crown land , trading licences , and monopolies . |
| 20 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 21 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 22 | When Old Testament psalms such as this one were sung in the New Testament church , they took on new meaning , although the old promises were still there , ready to be fulfilled in the lives of the worshippers . |
| 23 | The usage of ‘ race ’ during the September-October 1985 period took on new meanings , which had little if anything to do with the impact of racism as such , since the emphasis was on the cultural characteristics of the minority communities themselves . |
| 24 | Far from fading away , public interest in BCCI took on new life on May 24th . |
| 25 | Six new members joined the Cabinet and three other ministers took on new responsibilities [ see p. 37702 ] . |
| 26 | The accusation of hostility to Israel took on new meaning in November 1967 , when de Gaulle made comments about the characteristics of the Jewish people that were interpreted as anti-Semitic . |
| 27 | The question of access to the US public utility market in areas such as transport took on new interest with Mr Clinton 's plan to increase investment in areas such as high-speed railways and other transit systems as part of his recovery plan . |
| 28 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 29 | His father left home when he was three , and his mother took on additional jobs , enabling the children to attend the village school . |
| 30 | The Governor of Goa , Khurshid Alam Khan , took on additional responsibility for Karnataka in January 1991 following the resignation of Bhanu Pratap Singh [ see p. 37964 ] . |