Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 2 | Sports officer Ian Gardiner said : ‘ We will be submitting a bid for funds to put on a new series of Champion Coaching based on the popularity of the last course . |
| 3 | Three identical aprons hung on a crooked coatstand . |
| 4 | His lips took on a wry slant . |
| 5 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
| 6 | His eyes took on a dreamy expression and by the time I had intoned " Archibald , Marshall , English , Mc Phail and Morton , " there was something near to a wistful smile on his lips . |
| 7 | The shops took on a new lease of life , the street-sellers , with their lemonade and nougat , ostrich feathers , mummy-beads and scarabs , carnations and roses , and the street-artists , with their boa-constrictors and baboons , took new heart , and the city in general resumed its normal manic rhythm . |
| 8 | A glimpse of rough woodland carpeted with bluebells and wild garlic could be seen beyond a daisy-sprinkled lawn ; a wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees ; voices carried on the still air . |
| 9 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 10 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 11 | Singing together unifies and inspires us ; music touches our emotions , and words take on a deeper meaning . |
| 12 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 13 | The police and the majority of defendants put on an arrogant front . |
| 14 | My father 's feelings towards the General were , naturally , those of utmost loathing ; but he realized too that his employer 's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party — which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair . |
| 15 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 16 | For some weeks their lives took on a settled pattern of difference . |
| 17 | ‘ All those models carried on the same way the artists did . |
| 18 | Westminster NALGO is predicting massive redundancies in the borough unless private companies take on the existing staff . |
| 19 | Hedgerows take on an additional dimension on foggy days ; when the distant landscape is blotted out immediate surroundings assume a new prominence . |
| 20 | Pubs could become for her extensions of the office , places to put on a good show for the Yard , swilling pints of bitter with the lads to enhance her image . |
| 21 | The ‘ 89 needs to put on a little weight . ’ |
| 22 | For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black , a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright . |
| 23 | The corridors took on an eerie silence . |
| 24 | Grigorovich 's simplistic , ideological heroes took on a new dimension when danced with such dramatic appeal , with such virility , such fabulous jumps . |
| 25 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 26 | His judgements take on the ex-cathedra ring of a Lawrence : ‘ I believe in you as a painter . ’ |
| 27 | Although his wife 's chintz chaircovers bring on a certain nausea whenever I am obliged to call . " |
| 28 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 29 | Because we earn no money for the bulk of our day 's work , buying things takes on a rich range of meanings . |
| 30 | Pillars , walls , ceiling , all have been painted , and there are even paintings hung on the upper walls of the nave above the arches , which are a mixture of round and pointed . |