Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool will probably want around £750,000 for the player who Tranmere tried to take on loan earlier this season . |
| 2 | She began to put on weight at almost every feed . |
| 3 | Upholstery became a separate trade , and seating began to put on weight in consequence . |
| 4 | He 'd go mad if I started putting on weight . |
| 5 | And when I started putting on weight I and I 'm still putting on weight . |
| 6 | Did put on weight ? |
| 7 | Yeah , yeah and she 's , yeah , and she says she 's so fed cos to her there 's nothing wrong with her , the baby did put on weight last week , but she said you know , what do you do in here all day . |
| 8 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 9 | Solicitors there 's no way you ca n't not fight it , in the beginning you can just go guilty and he said hang on minute let me just read it through he said no , he said you 've got to go and do it . |
| 10 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 11 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 12 | Some had sons working at home , but on others the sons had taken on contract work to bring in additional ( much needed ) income . |
| 13 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 14 | Others had taken on machinery contracting ( ploughing or grass conservation ) . |
| 15 | She had been a mother 's help to a family in Hampshire , she had babysat through an agency in London , and had taken on cleaning jobs . |
| 16 | He had put on weight . |
| 17 | He had put on weight , but he was taking exercise . |
| 18 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 19 | As a result his breathing was better and he had put on weight but , as he told Seferis , " the spirit sleeps " in such places:he became bored and restless . |
| 20 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 21 | One of the girls made a crack that Rachaela had put on weight due to the food . |
| 22 | His career as a virtuoso dancer came to an end in the 1960s , when he suffered an injury , but he continued to take on character parts , notably as the widow Simone in Ashton 's Fille , and remained with the company until 1989 . |
| 23 | ANGRY teachers were last night set to take on Education Secretary John Patten over plans to mobilise a ‘ Mum 's Army ’ to teach young children . |