Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also felt that specialist workers could pass on skills and ideas to others , but it would take time . |
| 2 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
| 3 | I understand several are ready to take on Taylor and attempt to stop some of their stars travelling on a trip where England will play a tournament against the USA , Brazil and Germany . |
| 4 | In 1466 a Bohemian visitor to England commented : … the peasants dig ditches round their fields and meadows and so fence them in that no one can pass on foot or on horseback except by the main roads ' ( 25 , p.53 ) . |
| 5 | These Regulations , which are now in force , allow partnerships of unlimited size if they are formed for the purpose of carrying on practice as consulting engineers , provided a majority of the partners are recognised by the Engineering Council as chartered engineers . |
| 6 | All the plaintiffs and the defendant were doctors carrying on practice as general medical practitioners at er . |
| 7 | In the blue corner , Phil ‘ Blue Whale ’ King takes on allcomers as he grapples with a host of wrestling games and performs his famous belly flop ! |
| 8 | So that you can enjoy your hobbies and , and , and , and you know , you can take on hobbies that do , do require quite a lot from you , if you 've got the stamina . |
| 9 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 10 | They took on roles and accepted or doled out punishments according to the rules of the game and the arbitration of The Storm Master . |
| 11 | This unifying issue can be presented at the beginning of the drama or at a later stage , after the children have taken on roles and started on small group work . |
| 12 | Forum theatre with two teachers taking on roles and children in two groups as advisers . |
| 13 | No go on Paulie cos I ca n't |
| 14 | Sets of dinner-plates have been muddled up , nozzles switched on candlesticks and there are thumb prints in the middle of each salver where the dealers have felt the thickness of the silver . |
| 15 | Cold drinks can bring on chilliness or cough . |
| 16 | While Gainsborough was becoming enfeebled , nothing was being done outside Ealing and Independent Producers to bring on talent or set up new centres of production strength . |
| 17 | Let somebody else take on Johnny and his bloody war , she thought viciously . |
| 18 | Lloyd 's stood by as underwriters took on risks that were likely to lead to losses , largely because of its habit of management-by-agreement . |
| 19 | The domes are carried on pendentives and below are rectangular piers without capitals . |
| 20 | These domes are carried on pendentives and are each 40 feet in diameter . |
| 21 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 22 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 23 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 24 | Who put on weight but finished several millions pounds short of the figure she wanted ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 've tried and tried to put on weight but in the end I thought bugger it . |
| 26 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , a diet high in carbohydrates meant that some women not only put on weight but also stopped wearing their corsets . |
| 28 | As a result his breathing was better and he had put on weight but , as he told Seferis , " the spirit sleeps " in such places:he became bored and restless . |
| 29 | Putting on weight as fat deposits — food and fuel for the long journey ahead — their entire bodies become covered with mucus in preparation for the miles of slithering travel . |
| 30 | He was also vain enough of his appearance to have worried about putting on weight as the days dwindled before they hanged him . |