Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up in her booth , a puzzled DJ stares at a machine with nothing on it , shrugs and puts on a current hit to get things moving once again . |
| 2 | Her face became twisted and not so pretty , and as her voice grew louder it lost its cultured tones and took on a snarling harshness . |
| 3 | In the other half of the picture the shoulder-line tilts towards us … and the face retreats and takes on a mask-like , wall-like quality ’ , wrote John Russell . |
| 4 | The royals will try to shrug off their problems and put on a good show for Margaret . |
| 5 | Austerity was Britain 's peculiar reward for surviving World War II unbeaten at the cost of selling her foreign assets and taking on a crippling load of debt to the United States . |
| 6 | Instead , there will be attempts to paper over the chasms and put on a united front for the sake of appearances . |
| 7 | It is an industry which even in times of recession has kept most of its 70 000 employees and taken on a welcome and regular flow of new recruits . |