Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Other actors were instructed to bring on the score .
2 You were going to take on the ones we had last time .
3 Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives .
4 " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year .
5 She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again .
6 When he was invited to switch on the Christmas lights in Settle , he needed a police escort because of a bomb threat believed to be from workers at a local quarry .
7 It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely .
8 The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics .
9 He had n't done well at Sunset , and was planning to pass on the Billabong .
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