Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
| 2 | She always smiled and only put on an angry face when she was being teased . |
| 3 | That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley . |
| 4 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 5 | Best taken on an empty stomach so half an hour before food . |
| 6 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 7 | " The old bird we were chasing just put on an extra spurt , and I banged my chin on the ground so hard I though a tree had fallen on me ! " |
| 8 | These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives . |
| 9 | If you have ever switched on a personal stereo full blast , you will have some idea what it feels like . |
| 10 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 11 | Loose canvas seat covers were also carried on the upper decks . |
| 12 | This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other . |
| 13 | 8 information about other books published , materials , tapes , etc — often carried on the inside back cover . |
| 14 | It also means a more complicated view of humans than the interpretation that is often put on the classical conception — that we are ‘ naturally evil ’ . |
| 15 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |
| 16 | Cicely put on a cheerful expression and tactfully , as though thinking to leave the newly engaged couple to say goodnight in private , she smiled , ‘ If you 'll excuse us , Leith , Guthrie and I always go and check on the horses before we go up to bed . |
| 17 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
| 18 | While the royals had decided to staunchly put on a united front as best they could , 70 miles away Diana refused to attend one of the two public services in village churches near the estate . |
| 19 | If all the amendments are lost , one by one , a vote is then taken on the original motion just as if there had been no amendments moved at all . |
| 20 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 21 | If she had been Nick she would have cried , or at least put on a hurt face . |
| 22 | At about this time a hitherto unsuccessful fortune-teller living on the other side of the block chanced to glance into her scrying bowl , gave a small scream and , within the hour , had sold her jewellery , various magical accoutrements , most of her clothes and almost all her other possessions that could not be conveniently carried on the fastest horse she could buy . |
| 23 | Of course I had n't bargained on technology , because once the hide is cut to size and checked for blemishes it 's actually put on a cutting form and sent through a roller press . |