Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Thanks , ’ he said dryly , his face taking on the blank expression it usually had when he was annoyed .
2 With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door .
3 Within a moment of her arrival St Ives put on the rimless spectacles he detested , though usually he preferred to squint blindly down at the book rather than be seen in them .
4 Though no official cost has been put on the deep-water well which led to the West of Shetland find , industry sources suggest the total outlay may have been less than £10 million .
5 There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself .
6 If you are the victim of a game refuse to take on the bad feeling it leaves you with .
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