Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 2 | Courses in the first , second and third years are chosen from biological and management sciences , Ecological Science and Agriculture ; in the fourth year study units will be taken on rural land management . |
| 3 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Get set : Marathon runners will take on four-legged competition in a long distance run at Llanwyrtyd Wells , Powys . |
| 6 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 7 | Pioneering NHS industrial units in large hospitals thus took on subcontracted work from local factories . |
| 8 | Come on darling look . |
| 9 | Every conversation , every event , took on fresh colour and significance . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll take on fresh food and water when we reach Ibiza , ’ Nathan announced . |
| 11 | There are many plants that give off scent during the day but which seem to take on fresh strength in the evenings . |
| 12 | Desperate for cash following the Swedish debacle , he was one of the first to take on commercial sponsorship by negotiating a less than lucrative deal with Lovetts Panty Hose Ltd , and solely responsible for the bankrupting record fiasco when , at crippling expense , the team took on the guise of the Whaddon Promotion All Stars , and released a record , Go Go Athletic-O . |
| 13 | Gorbunovs , although in favour of Latvian independence , had remained a member of the section of the Latvian Communist Party loyal to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) following the split in Latvian communist ranks in April [ see p. 37385 ] ; his endorsement by the Popular Front was regarded as another example of the cautious approach being taken on Latvian independence , since Gorbunovs 's good relations with the Soviet leadership were considered valuable for any future negotiations . |
| 14 | Tail whisking is one of the movements which has taken on expressive value , becoming emancipated from its original function of removing flies : horses whisk their tails at anything they want to remove from their vicinity , such as other horses , inept grooms or riders , or even irritating conditions such as being confined or tied up . |
| 15 | Come on old boy . ’ |
| 16 | She thrust out her jaw , pursed her lips and in a deep voice said , ‘ Come on old girl , up the golden stairs ; let's hit the hay . ’ |
| 17 | Then go through the replies again if any are marked with a cross , taking whatever action may be appropriate on each ( asking the seller 's conveyancers to provide a copy of a planning consent that your search has revealed , and telling your client that the drainage is combined with that of adjoining properties , or — this merely to pass on interesting information — that the house is in an area designated as one of special natural beauty or historical interest ) . |
| 18 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 19 | Better chance of fish at Barry Docks where flounder and pouting taken on light tackle . |
| 20 | They demonstrate an urge to pass on revelatory experience which quite transcends the norms of ‘ musical ’ piano-playing . |
| 21 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 22 | Come on Scottish Office , let's see if you mean business ! |
| 23 | Dr.BERRY TAKES ON TOP RESEARCH JOB |
| 24 | ‘ We would n't dream of taking on chartered accountant students , ’ says Clive Jones , a sole practitioner from Rugby . |
| 25 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 26 | Pyatt , who has cut off his dreadlocks , takes on Colombian tough-guy Adolfo Caballero for the WBC international middleweight crown at the Granby Halls , Leicester , on Tuesday , October 27 . |
| 27 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 28 | The line to take on capital punishment was that what urgently mattered was not the form of punishment , but making sure that people can live in safety and without fear . |
| 29 | , … or to strike south to the Waste , recapture the girl — remember , they may know nothing about her — and then ride back either by the track on the other side of the Swamp or carry on direct south towards Leicester . |
| 30 | The black and white Carry On S– Spying ( A notice in the entertainments programme for the British Embassy in Moscow read : ‘ 13 Aug 8 pm . |