Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight . |
| 2 | I erm I hope I pass on Thursday because I 've got two appointments on Wednesday . |
| 3 | He always yawns a lot and says Who ? in a bored voice when I pass on news from the Edwardian , but I suspect he 's interested . |
| 4 | I keep on thinking of him : of things he said and I said , and how we neither of us really understood what the other meant . |
| 5 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 6 | There 's a pain in my lung when I breathe , and I keep on thinking of pneumonia . |
| 7 | For example , I take on mobility and activities , somebody else is doing incontinence , somebody else first aid , somebody else mental health . |
| 8 | His pictures which hang on walls all over the world show a fascination with the street life of Parisians . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you 've lost hope , and the only thing I can tell you is that if you hang on hope will come back , and you must n't do anything until it does . ’ |
| 10 | Just as if , if we are in a sort , team leader or a section head as I 've shown , it does n't mean to say that we hold all the knowledge , we can pass it on to others , who can he pass it on to somebody else although you ultimately may be responsible for the training of other people , you do n't need to do it all yourself do you , but unless you pass on skills , you 're gon na make a sort of a quite a vicious circle for yourself are n't ya ? |
| 11 | " Who are these law-breaking Chinese [ In Limehouse ] who carry on opium dens , gambling dens and disorderly houses " but potential German spies ? |
| 12 | If you carry on spending money like it 's going out of style you 'll end up in debt with a mass of interest to pay off . |
| 13 | It is most often used in whole group work , but it is also very productive in forum theatre , particularly if the role you take on functions as an obstacle which the class ( or representatives of the class ) have to find their way round by argument , persuasion and compromise . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're better off than the others , if you take on Gary 's horse . |
| 15 | Now if you want to argue about shop-girls , you take on Henry here . |
| 16 | You take on commitments and learn skills which have little to do with flexing muscles and heaving lungs . |
| 17 | Flockhart and Jillian Haldane are also in the Scotland Under-23 squad who take on Ulster at Stranraer on 11 March . |
| 18 | Four pilot Workstart schemes will be started , offering financial assistance to employers who take on people who have been long-term unemployed . |
| 19 | Employers who take on people who have been unemployed for longer than either two years or four years , depending on the pilot area , will be paid a subsidy related to average benefits . |
| 20 | Former England striker Peter Withe is among a team of Aston Villa Old Stars who take on Tewkesbury Town this Sunday in a festival of football . |
| 21 | ‘ We pass on knowledge to our trading partners , telling them what we see to be the benefits , and what some of our other customers have found to be the benefits . |
| 22 | Any verdict we pass on punishment must be soundly based on an acceptable general moral philosophy . |
| 23 | Gordon Beck , spokesman for the Anthony Nolan Research Centre , said : ‘ The relationship between donor and patient is confidential but after 12 months we allow correspondence and we pass on messages from both sides . |
| 24 | As the figures we carry on Page 7 show , there is now virtual random breath-testing in this country . |
| 25 | On other tasks we take on contractors simply because they are cheaper . |
| 26 | Today we take on Northtown , who beat us 4–2 back in October , thus denting our then red-hot title hopes . |
| 27 | ‘ When we take on authors who have been published by other publishers , we try first to identify how they should be packaged to improve sales . |
| 28 | Before we take on staff and work out our programme we must elucidate what seem to be the key concepts in my instructions to date : ‘ pitch ’ , ‘ goal ’ , and ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 29 | A couple of girls go past and they got this red sparkly stuff wrapped round their necks — you know , a sort of silvery string they hang on Christmas trees . |
| 30 | They carry on average only 2.5 grains each and , as the corollas fall in the morning , they ny back up to the canopy , where they effect pollination , any slight wind drifting them to other trees . |