Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
2 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
3 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
4 | With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door . |
5 | During the third round Sam drove the short par-4 10th green and his eagle putt hung on the lip for almost 25 seconds before dropping into the hole . |
6 | God sent the Spirit of Jesus to his followers in order to equip them to carry on the mission of his Son in the world . |
7 | The survey also contains information on the action employers take on the expiry of the time limit . |
8 | It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car . |
9 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |
10 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
11 | You start , as I said , with the claw weight hanging on the edge of the knitting . |
12 | Then player manager Brian Flynn latched on to a Mark Taylor pass on the edge of the penalty area but his shot rebounded to safety off the inside of the post . |
13 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
14 | The author of this missive was Patricia Hewitt , who seemed determined to take on the mantle of Sara Barker , a notorious fixer and manipulator from the Labour Party of the fifties . |
15 | While Oman 's Muscat took on the mantle of regional champions , Queensland provided a masterly performance against Bahrain Warblers . |
16 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
17 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
18 | Higher education is notorious for producing disciples , as students take on the mantle of a teacher who has created a great impression . |
19 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
20 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
21 | Among the terrestrial channels , Channel 4 has in any case taken on the mantle of the senator for adult-intelligent viewing : in other words , the place where you can watch randily beneath a thinnish veneer of knowledge and a deeper understanding of self . |
22 | By limited liability the state is encouraging management to use shareholder funds in more risky ventures than they would otherwise undertake , and then pass on the liability at a time for forced liquidation , to third parties . |
23 | Children 's paintings hung on the gate of a timber yard , the most restrained moment of a day long protest against the tropical timber trade . |
24 | At some stage Leonora had switched on the lamp beside her to see her knitting , but otherwise the room was in darkness . |
25 | But now it appears thieves are being increasingly interested in taking on the hole in the wall and that means bigger and heavier vehicles to do it . |
26 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
27 | In fact , from then on the rest of the evening seemed to be bathed in a glorious , rosy light . |
28 | Taking on the rest of them . |
29 | Er , the first thing is I put on the top of my draught that I 'd rather the pupils were n't involved at this stage I 'd rather they were involved in the over view with form tutor . |
30 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |