Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 2 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 3 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 4 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 5 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 7 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 8 | The new aqueduct was necessary to allow ships to pass on the new Manchester Ship Canal . |
| 9 | Finally , the whole of the Gospel leads to the commission of the Church , to go out and baptise , to teach , and to pass on the new law of Christianity ( Matt. |
| 10 | As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out . |
| 11 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 12 | If one person in a twin room cancels , we reserve the right to pass on the full cost of the twin room to the person using that room . |
| 13 | The invitations can be in the shape of a banana , make a large banana to put on the front door , and decorate the room with bananas and long yellow balloons . |
| 14 | The invitations can be clock-shaped with the hands pointing to the starting time , and you can make a large clock to put on the front door . |
| 15 | The only idea that seemed feasible was for the Collector to put on the rusty suit of armour which stood in the banqueting hall and to go out there with a scythe . |
| 16 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It will be good to see the England lads again and to put on the international shirt , ’ says Gazza . |
| 18 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 19 | These will be handy when they need to put on the pink tie to go to the youth club disco . |
| 20 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 21 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 22 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 23 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 24 | If new proteins are to be made , the DNA must be activated in some way , so as to switch on the relevant genes . |
| 25 | Well he had to switch on the interior light to be able to fill out the form . |
| 26 | Television was so quick to join the Yuppie Backlash that there is now a real danger of a Yuppie Backlash Drama Backlash , in which the viewer starts muttering about not being able to switch on the bloody set without seeing a broker being broken . |
| 27 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 28 | He reached to switch on the soft bedside light . |
| 29 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 30 | To me it seemed to hang on the right lip for at least two seconds before it dropped in . |