Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong lemon smell , from a local herb known as black branch , hung on the hot steamy air . |
| 2 | The sink was squared-off and old fashioned , with a white splashback and a tilting mirror ; Forester switched on the fluorescent shaving light and tried to tip the mirror to look at himself , but it would n't stay in place until he found out how to tighten a chrome-plated hexagonal nut on the hinge . |
| 3 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 4 | His white face took on a curious mauve tinge and the loose flaps of skin under his cheeks quivered . |
| 5 | As a result , he necessarily developed a new self-image , and took on a new social personality in the process . |
| 6 | Court architects set the fashion , and what used to be an essentially English style took on a strong foreign influence . |
| 7 | Set against the verdant tracery of mature trees , and the glinting spread of a glassy lake in the background , the house took on a warm roseate glow in the fading light of the evening sun . |
| 8 | Naturally , no one could move into any of the new flats until the presidential apartments in the palace were fit for the top comrades , so the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism took on a ghostly lifeless quality with its empty layer of flats and its vacant shops on the ground floor . |
| 9 | Political faction had become far more pervasive because the Reformation raised the temperature of Scottish politics , which now took on a focused European dimension , and because once the strong rule of James V had gone , men without the aura of royalty had to struggle with religious and political problems that they had never experienced before . |
| 10 | Changes in the official interest rate once again took on a high political profile and this led to problems with the conduct of monetary policy . |
| 11 | Llanelli ....... 27 Leicester ....... 8 GOING for the gap took on a painful new meaning for Steve Bowling when he helped Llanelli claw their way back to win this entertaining game . |
| 12 | Venables , who freely admits he took on a huge financial burden for his 22 per cent stake , is alleged to want more say on the financial side , but Sugar prefers him to concentrate on coaching . |
| 13 | When his father died in 1846 he had to support the family , but his career took on a dramatic new turn when he was asked to undertake a contract to build a bridge over the River Severn near his home . |
| 14 | Mrs Browning began to laugh but the laugh brought on a coughing fit and , when Wilson rushed to her aid and raised her higher on the pillow , her face took on an ugly blue tinge , which she had never seen before . |
| 15 | An Oxford bedsit is home for the philosopher who took on the Czechoslovakian secret state . |
| 16 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 17 | In a final gamble Bournemouth brought on a towering central defender , John Williams , as a striker — but Sunderland held on . |
| 18 | Charles put on a low dynamic voice which rose in crescendo to an order . |
| 19 | She put on a straight yellow skirt , just brushing her knee , and a matching vest-top . |
| 20 | He got up , took a shower , combed his hair with care and put on a new black T-shirt . |
| 21 | For while the Jags put on a polished professional display which deservedly earned them a point , Rangers produced a curate 's egg of a performance . |
| 22 | The drama society put on a short comic sketch . |
| 23 | We may be very liberated and all that but — ‘ Oh — I must ask my husband ’ ’ She put on a high-pitched imbecile voice like a detergent or wash-up liquid ad . |
| 24 | Charlie went straight up to the room that he shared with Terry and put on a Fine Young Cannibals tape . |
| 25 | Magill put on a brave wry smile . |
| 26 | A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands , who introduced himself as Melquíades , put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia . |
| 27 | Airhead , especially , put on an impressive live showing of reliable pop that belied their rather ordinary singles . |
| 28 | While Buckmaster sat impatiently in the rear and drummed his fingers on his knee , Morgan put on an expensive black overcoat , the collar trimmed with astrakhan , buttoned it up , got back behind the wheel and resumed driving . |
| 29 | She put on an adopted cosy accent to make him laugh , but she was no mimic and the effort was arthritic . |
| 30 | A trio of Grumman ‘ Cats ( Hellcat , Tigercat and Bearcat ) took to the air , Bob Mitchell 's PT Flight brought the training theme to the fore and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight put on an exciting synchronised display with two Spitfire XIXs ( PS853 and PS915 ) before the Lancaster thundered through and filled the air with the sound of Merlins . |