Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 2 | AS THE title of his admirable autobiography — Jousting with Giants — admits , Jim McLean has always enjoyed taking on the Scottish game 's major forces . |
| 3 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 4 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 5 | Yes well , for the experimental aircraft programme British Aerospace specified what G E C had to do and er a a this time , if you like , Deutsch Aerospace has taken on the equivalent role that B A E had for the experimental aircraft programme and er Deutsch Aerospace are not without experience in flight controls they have . |
| 6 | Mark Jones , the exhibition 's curator , has taken on the dual task of tracing the history of forgery from archaic Babylon to contemporary California , while at the same time tracing the history of how forgery is understood . |
| 7 | All four are , for example , victimised in different ways by the taboo of illegitimacy and the play focuses on Rose , who has been kept from the knowledge that Jackie is her mother by grandmother Margaret who has taken on the maternal role . |
| 8 | Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within . |
| 9 | But the issue of Somerset House , which he has put on the political agenda , will not fade . |
| 10 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 11 | To me it seemed to hang on the right lip for at least two seconds before it dropped in . |
| 12 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 13 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 14 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 15 | On the other hand ( or foot ) , consider putting on the right shoe ( R ) and then the left one ( L ) . |
| 16 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 17 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 18 | The cleaner is a nondrip gel descaler , so it stays put on the vertical surface , dissolving the scale . |
| 19 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 20 | So this was done , and on the very next day fine grapes were found hanging on the youngest brother 's vine . |
| 21 | As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out . |
| 22 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 23 | With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door . |
| 24 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 25 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 26 | He reached to switch on the soft bedside light . |
| 27 | Do carry on the good work , in September with encouragement to all new people in your class , and in January with the renewal of your own membership . |
| 28 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 29 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 30 | If we 're confident that you can afford to take on the extra commitment , we 're quite happy to agree a second loan . |