Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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1 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
2 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
3 | Her ability to change form is illustrated in the quotation which opened this chapter , where Jung describes how his mother seemed to take on another shape and quality at night . |
4 | The alarm in Leeming 's face was obvious ; the confusion that followed brought on another bout of coughing . |
5 | Meanwhile , Easy Rider , itself , began to take on more menacing tones as it neared its climax . |
6 | I The committee decided to pass on this information to the editor of Out On Strike , the strikers " newsletter , to use at his discretion . |
7 | I contacted their next-of-kin and I undertook to pass on any scraps of information , or even rumour , that I could glean from every possible source . |
8 | The slow-down in the rate of increase between the third and fourth time bands reflects the saturation of the new ‘ market ’ as the industry reached maturity , and started to take on fewer new staff . |
9 | The Prince of Wales is president of my organisation , Scottish Business in the Community , and ever since he agreed to take on that role he as dedicated a large amount of time to helping us , and in turn , helping communities , not because it 's it 's fashionable because he really believes in it and he wants to do hard work on our behalf and on the countrys ' behalf . |
10 | It was a low , bitter retort , and she was gradually becoming aware that the intensity of the scene had brought on another of those infuriating headaches . |
11 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
12 | He found he had taken on more than he bargained for . |
13 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |
14 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
15 | Men were therefore the first people with private property and soon they wanted to pass on this property to their children . |
16 | It found that 40 per cent of companies , mainly in the retail and financial sectors , intended taking on more staff in the next six months . |
17 | He said American Airlines wanted to take on more transatlantic routes , but had been bogged down by bilateral agreements between the British and U.S. governments which had still not been finalised . |