Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put on a tremendous act . |
| 2 | Although she is now slim , Liz confesses to a terrible struggle with her weight , which makes peasant-style clothes , such as Monsoon 's glorious Tibetan embroidered skirt ( see page 16 ) particularly good for her : ‘ I put on a great deal of weight after the twins were born , and when I started diving , it became very obvious because fat floats , so you have to balance your weight with extra diving weights . |
| 3 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
| 4 | I put on a clean pair of socks . |
| 5 | I put on a clean collar and go along , happy just to observe . |
| 6 | ‘ I put on a light foundation and , using earthy browns , subtly highlighted Fiona 's eyes and shaded in her lips with an amber-coloured lipstick . ’ |
| 7 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 8 | I pass on an interesting snippet that I read on a computer news net . |
| 9 | Wait a minute till I switch on the other light . |
| 10 | You put on a good front , and appear to others as an outgoing person . |
| 11 | when you want to put in highlights at the end of your painting , the paint will tend to sink in each time you put on a pale colour if the paper is still damp . |
| 12 | ‘ When you put on a magic show for the people up there . ’ |
| 13 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 14 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 15 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 16 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 17 | ‘ But we want all the complications down in black and white before we switch on the green light , ’ said Mr Wright . |
| 18 | Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know whether this is necessary but Caroline erm , but when we take on a new type of business which is n't covered by our current procedures erm , say electronic data collection or something , which up until then has been done on paper , that we ought to have some simple statement in a procedure about how we are going to er , ma , ensure that we 've got a new set of procedures to deal with that new type of , new system . |
| 20 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 21 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 22 | On my third shelf , I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me . |
| 23 | And there 's no telling quite what they will do … some nights they put on a full stage show , other times there may be a game or a sing song to join in with … but whatever the day , whatever the time there 's one thing you wo n't be at Tropicana , and that 's bored ! |
| 24 | But at lambing time they take on a total change of character and they can sometimes become very aggressive . |
| 25 | It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible . |
| 26 | Work on the house still continues , and each year they take on a new project . |
| 27 | Their natural colour is brown , but after feeding , when they may increase their body weight by a third , they take on a redder tinge . |
| 28 | But in the second order system they take on a different set of structural features . |
| 29 | Tonight at 8.00 p.m. they take on a Chinese pairing in their bid to reach the final tomorrow . |
| 30 | Tonight at 8.00 p.m. they take on a Chinese pairing in their bid to reach the final tomorrow . |