Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three identical aprons hung on a crooked coatstand . |
| 2 | His lips took on a wry slant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For some weeks their lives took on a settled pattern of difference . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The corridors took on an eerie silence . |
| 8 | Grigorovich 's simplistic , ideological heroes took on a new dimension when danced with such dramatic appeal , with such virility , such fabulous jumps . |
| 9 | As the formality of adoption receded into past history , leaving the same accumulation of problems , hope began to wane and problems took on a different perspective . |
| 10 | In the flickering candlelight , the withered features took on a grotesque appearance . |
| 11 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 12 | For the next half hour the rehearsals took on a sudden lift and everyone began to dare to try things out without feeling foolish . |
| 13 | So her waking hours took on a new format . |
| 14 | These forums had been held before the move was considered to provide lines of communication between management and staff but , the company notes , these meetings took on a new usefulness when the relocation was announced . |
| 15 | Suddenly , his inability to attract friends took on a new significance . |
| 16 | The committee men took on a new authority . |
| 17 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |
| 18 | However , the golf reports took on a new look when supplied by Jack Webb in the two or three years before his death . |
| 19 | In an organisation where a lot of people , through necessity or personal choice , were cut off from their families or friends at home , mail and letters took on a special importance . |
| 20 | Their faces took on a different expression ; they grew more spruce and upright of bearing , ceased to loll about on the tables or against the walls , and held themselves up . |
| 21 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 22 | Both it and the Tories took on a joint gamble when the Sun talked up the ‘ independence in Europe ’ line . |