Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 2 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 3 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 4 | Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face . |
| 5 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 6 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 7 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 8 | To me it seemed to hang on the right lip for at least two seconds before it dropped in . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This means you 'll be on the list under both forms of your address , so no matter which form your From : address happens to take on a given day , you 'll be able to write to the list . |
| 11 | As she spoke the pens of the newspaper reporters seemed to take on a frantic life of their own , skipping across the lines of their notebooks . |
| 12 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 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 | A Washington Post report said that both men strove to put on a reassuring front when asked about opinion polls which continued to show a majority of voters in both republics against separation . |
| 15 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 16 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 17 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 18 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |
| 19 | Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines , feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach . |
| 20 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 21 | Injury doubt , Mark Hateley will also play , as Rangers begin to take on a menacing look again . |
| 22 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 23 | What firm is going to take on an untrained man in his forties at a time when it is being forced to lay off people who have been with their business for years ? |
| 24 | I should weigh at least 8½ stone , but I do n't want to put on an extra pound . |
| 25 | As the front door slammed behind them , Josh finished drying his face and hands and began to put on a clean shirt and a stiff collar . |
| 26 | In spite of all the hard work she began to put on a little weight . |
| 27 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 28 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 29 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 30 | Life was beginning to take on a familiar shape again . |