Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 2 | He re-locked the drawer , stood up , and that was when someone switched on the main light . |
| 3 | Wait a minute till I switch on the other light . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 6 | ( Here , incidentally , is my take on the homosexual male . |
| 7 | The Scale 2 teacher-librarian was part of this committee , which took on the ambitious brief of integrating a spiral of library and learning skills within the lower-school curriculum . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The active part is played by a public corporation , the National Coal Board , which carries on the vast bulk of the exploitation itself whilst licensing a minute amount of private enterprise by others . |
| 11 | Let's have a bit of light on the subject " She switched on the blue urinal and looked at it . |
| 12 | Naked , she switched on the powerful shower-jets , and raised her voice to be heard above them . |
| 13 | She switched on the electric kettle and made a cup of instant coffee flavoured with powdered milk and artificial sweetener . |
| 14 | She switched on the electric fire , the room was freezing as if hung with icicles . |
| 15 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 16 | The game boys who took on the big boys , and won , |
| 17 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 18 | And after all , what price can you put on the immense satisfaction of taking dew-fresh vegetables to the kitchen within minutes of harvesting them ? |
| 19 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
| 20 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 21 | Did she put on the magic dress , the dress made of pain and courage and become herself transformed , into a human woman , lovely and gentle , whom some other wicked creature had once enchanted too ? |
| 22 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 23 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 24 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 25 | The decision is a boost for Warwick Rimmer , who brings on the young players at Tranmere , reserve coach Ray Matthias and manager John King who has often been forced to play senior players coming back from injury against youth teams . |
| 26 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 27 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 28 | ‘ But we want all the complications down in black and white before we switch on the green light , ’ said Mr Wright . |
| 29 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 30 | No one carried on the cheesemaking tradition in our family , although West Park Farm is still owned by the Birketts , run as a beef farm by my sister-in-law and her young son . |