Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We either hold or pass on letters for clients . |
| 2 | McAllister or Strach would feed it out to Sharp ( who was absolutely brill — see below ) who would either wait for the overlap from Dorigo or take on Breacker ( skinning him most of the time ) . |
| 3 | Fateha : Yes — you know puppets — the sort that hang on strings . |
| 4 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 5 | Well good luck to you because er you know I can tell you right now we are one of the few companies that take on people in their fifties . |
| 6 | Just think of the businesses that take on people who are on the social . |
| 7 | Go on Jesus bloody Christ how could he of missed that come on Tim bloody three year old would n't of missed that |
| 8 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 9 | Birds can often be diseased on arrival and pass on infections to humans such as psittacosis , tuberculosis and hepatitis . |
| 10 | The state would continue to own land , but peasants could work their plots as their own businesses , employ labour , and pass on farms to their heirs , and members of co-operatives could set up private businesses . |
| 11 | Please ask in all local classes if members could offer anyone a bed for the Friday night , and pass on details to , . |
| 12 | Davies says deepsea fish are attracted to the drums , then move to shallower waters and pass on radio-activity through the food chain . |
| 13 | Haines was a friend in the right place , ready to cut a few corners and pass on information while it was still worth having . |
| 14 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 15 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 16 | The assistant manager of the Holmes Cash and Carry on Boucher Crescent was taken by robbers to the warehouse in his Hyundai Pony car while his wife and child were kept hostage at home . |
| 17 | He missed out on only Carry On Up The Jungle , Carry On Girls and Carry On England , the penultimate in the series . |
| 18 | Appeared in 39 Carry Ons , including Carry On Doing That And My Dad 'll Smack You In The Mouth , Carry On Sexism and Carry On Num Nums . |
| 19 | For this means that ‘ the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from … their legislators , whenever they shall be so foolish , or so wicked , as to lay and carry on designs against the[ir] liberties and properties ’ . |
| 20 | They are content to maintain their secrecy and carry on business as normal . |
| 21 | I just certain , satisfy certain erm cattle requirements and carry on business in the sugar trade and of must done so for a period of time , I 'm looking at this , the third page in , top of the page , erm trade in office in London established without purpose erm now those the |
| 22 | Jarvis thinks the decision to break with tradition and bring in Indian prodigy Sachin Tendulkar last summer , and take on West Indies captain Richie Richardson next season was the right one . |
| 23 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 24 | As well as the $200 million consideration , Peabody will pay an adjustment — estimated at $34 million — for final net assets and take on borrowings of about $65 million . |
| 25 | If you want to come on Loot at Lunchtime tomorrow erm five to one , ten to oneish , listen in then just after the Action Line bulletin and you can come on tomorrow perhaps and take on Sue from Chesterfield . |
| 26 | You hit the bottom of the valley , wait for the arms to stop shaking from the effort of holding the bike 's front wheel to its course and take on food from the station de ravitaillement . |
| 27 | While Carry On Columbus has alternative types ( Rik Mayall , Alexei Sayle ) paying their respects , old troupers ( wrinkly Jim Dale as Columbus ) and modern inheritors of the tradition ( a pretty limp Julian Clary ) , it just is n't funny or saucy enough . |
| 28 | But it was produced by Peter Rogers , directed by Gerald Thomas and in addition to Ken and Lance Percival , there was also Leslie Phillips and Eric Barker ( returning to the team after Carry On Sergeant ) , Sid James and Liz Frazer , who had been introduced to the series in Carry on Regardless and would be as much part of the set-up as Ken himself . |