Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb base] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smoke my spliff and switch on the telly ; I am just in time for Neighbours . |
| 2 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 3 | ‘ OK , Ellis , take out the tray and bring on the sex maniac . ’ |
| 4 | Enough , he hoped , to form several companies and carry on the fight , using guerrilla tactics . |
| 5 | Next time just stay at home and switch on the telly , clever clogs . |
| 6 | If I had the courage to grow out my hair and take on the streets without frill or face paint , bangles or heels and all such accessories of fear and vanity , then I would be seen far less and see much more . |
| 7 | Massage the skin and pass on the pressure and bingo ! |
| 8 | He had been ready to defy the conventions and take on the world — and win ! he thought . |
| 9 | He was manipulating a kind of toggle or switch on the head of his cane . |
| 10 | McIver ( 1987 ) describes that in retailing customers were persuaded to forgo the service provided by the friendly corner store and take on the labour of pushing trolleys around supermarkets because they made gains through cheaper prices and a wider choice of goods . |
| 11 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 12 | You open the papers or switch on the radio or television and find out . |
| 13 | Groups order through us , we place a ‘ bulk ’ order and pass on the saving when we send out the disks . |
| 14 | A company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( p 114 ) . |
| 15 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) . |