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

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1 The three winners ' works will be hung on the apparently dreary corridors of the BBC Television Centre .
2 ‘ This first phase of our Skerneside Revival will carry on the very important initiative of the Railside Revival . ’
3 Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value .
4 James took on the rather unglamorous task of editing the party paper , ‘ The Nation ’ and , almost single-handedly , established the paper 's reputation and prestige throughout the West Indies .
5 The night creatures which had drifted through the streets were no more , and the market stalls and poverty-stricken beggars took on the more comforting image of a capital apparently little changed since Blake 's day .
6 The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence .
7 The qualities which they attribute to literacy thus take on the more general significance of justifying the vast expense on western education systems .
8 But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles .
9 ‘ If the thought of other women being able to do this , to touch you , hold you , lie with you , brings on the most awful pain inside , makes me feel sick and ill , then I have no intention of letting you out of my sight .
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