Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 2 | Wait a minute till I switch on the other light . |
| 3 | Let's have a bit of light on the subject " She switched on the blue urinal and looked at it . |
| 4 | She switched on the electric kettle and made a cup of instant coffee flavoured with powdered milk and artificial sweetener . |
| 5 | She switched on the electric fire , the room was freezing as if hung with icicles . |
| 6 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 7 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 8 | And after all , what price can you put on the immense satisfaction of taking dew-fresh vegetables to the kitchen within minutes of harvesting them ? |
| 9 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
| 10 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 11 | Did she put on the magic dress , the dress made of pain and courage and become herself transformed , into a human woman , lovely and gentle , whom some other wicked creature had once enchanted too ? |
| 12 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 13 | ‘ But we want all the complications down in black and white before we switch on the green light , ’ said Mr Wright . |
| 14 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 15 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 16 | The Ruffians ' ( 4th XI ) season drew to a close on Saturday when they took on the third team 's opposition at Aldershot . |
| 17 | discount because they take in students , but will they pass on the full tax to the students ? |
| 18 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 19 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 20 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 21 | Once the left engine was turning over at 45 per cent , he switched on the right engine , using the live engine 's generator to save the battery . |
| 22 | Like a zombie she let him lead her from Tivoli , allowed him to fasten the seatbelt of the Mercedes round her , followed him into the apartment , standing motionless while he switched on the soft wall lighting . |
| 23 | Phil 's first big break in showbiz was when , as a child actor , he took on the challenging role of Arthur Dodger in Charles Dickens ' classical-rock musical ‘ Camelot ’ where he learned all he knows re : homelessness … |
| 24 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 25 | But — he took on the big job . |
| 26 | Gain says the acquisition positions it to take on the full scope of designing , building and delivering large-scale multimedia systems . |
| 27 | He switches on the interior light and picks up a bundle from the passenger seat . |
| 28 | If the vehicle should become stationary , the timer is allowed to run and , after one minute , it switches on the flasher circuit to operate the l.e.d . |