Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , if you 're a very tiny newborn baby , the amount of food you need to er , put on extra pound weight , is , is not going to be the same as if you are a much larger child , and you want to put on proportionately the same amount of X pounds , whatever it would be , it would be same the same proportion of your weight . |
| 2 | And , if by some misfortune , he or she miscalculates and dares to put on even a tiny amount of excess fat , this is immediately dieted off within a week of it first appearing . |
| 3 | the meat is not allowed to go on just an ordinary pallet . |
| 4 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 5 | In sum , as societies become industrialized , so the family loses its range of functions and comes to concentrate on only a few . |