Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 2 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 3 | An Oxford bedsit is home for the philosopher who took on the Czechoslovakian secret state . |
| 4 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 5 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 6 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 7 | ( 7 ) so can he , but the main point about this system is the strain it puts on the other players |
| 8 | The game boys who took on the big boys , and won , |
| 9 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 10 | Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration . |