Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angelica switched on the Cona machine and Adele brought an extra chair . |
| 2 | John Bowley , or Bowyer , a shot maker who took on the Hartfield steel forge in 1525 , might have been related to either Valentine or Nicholas Bowyer ( land £2 and £3 respectively ) . |
| 3 | The first was only 18 months ago when we took on the New Zealand Emerging Players XI . |
| 4 | as if life at Westminster were not strain enough , the House of Lords took on the Commons in a tug o' war contest this week . |
| 5 | Nick Hornby ( ‘ Mine is the generation that was terrified of the Daleks and fell in love with Valerie Singleton ’ ) carried on the Sunday Times sniping last week : ‘ It could well be that my generation is about to burst into spectacular , awe-inspiring literary life ; perhaps this year we will be reading scores of novels as dazzling as London Fields or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters , all written by men and women born after Elvis ’ first number one . |
| 6 | These problems are compounded by the weight of motor traffic — estimated at seven million vehicles per year — carried on the Alps ' narrow roads , which is exacerbating tree die-back due to acid rain . |