Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 32 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 33 | Of a far bell carried on the sweet south air — ; Her accoutrements the gay dense cover of earth . |
| 34 | Half-way through the movie Ms Dash switches on the mental light bulb and asks her suitor how he can afford to buy her diamond rings on a mailboy 's salary . |
| 35 | The pilot light burns continuously on most boilers , and lights the main burners when the programmer switches on the main gas supply . |
| 36 | Today Oxfordshire 's Steve Redgrave carries on the British rowing tradition . |