Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 2 | After all , it 's the care assistants who really know the details , so we like them to pass on that knowledge . ’ |
| 3 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 4 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 5 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 6 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 7 | As I said on second reading , this House is the ultimate guardian of the constitutional liberties of the British people . |
| 8 | He misses a risky plant , I take on some banana , and win on the pink . |
| 9 | Take for example the allusive references to the human body found in Helen Chadwick 's ‘ Nostalgie de la Boue ’ ( 1990 ) which takes on added resonance due to the visceral nature of the imagery : ‘ boue ’ is mud but also the mud of the unregenerate body that both Bakhtin and Foucault believe the bourgeoisie censor out of culture . |
| 10 | The primitive democratic organization which took on these duties , the village commune , may have afforded some consolation to the peasantry , and undoubtedly fostered something of a collectivist mentality . |
| 11 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 12 | An examination of the historical pattern of change serves four main purposes ; purposes which take on great significance in the context of contemporary debates concerning the proper representation of all political opinion and the nature of bias in the press . |
| 13 | Irrespective of the style of the piece , all music creates tension and release ( dissonance and consonance ) which brings on different emotions in its audience . |
| 14 | I am writing to you to pass on some information regarding Clown Loaches . |
| 15 | you know on first day when I was here |
| 16 | Her art is most successful when she takes on archetypal roles and makes her audience aware , simultaneously , of how immediately recognizable , widely shared and transparently obvious these roles are . |
| 17 | After you have studied the routes and prepared through do-it-yourself practice , your PP may give the names of the places you pass on one route , and at the conclusion you pick out which of the prepared journeys she was making . |
| 18 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 19 | Would you take on this job ? |
| 20 | With , with regards to Camco 's Eastern European sales drive , does this have any er , implications in terms of er , working capital movements , in terms of helping them fund those acquisitions and what sort of er , provisions perhaps , are you taking on those sales ? |
| 21 | On the 1st March she took on wider responsibilities as Head of Scripture Union 's Development and Communication Department . |
| 22 | It came quite late : Nilsson was 40 when she took on this Minnie . |
| 23 | I admired the way she took on this part of the world and conquered it . ’ |
| 24 | She took on another personality and a new role as an outlaw . |
| 25 | I say she brought on that heart attack ! ’ |
| 26 | So , if you go on thirty days unfortunately we we 'll enforce that . |
| 27 | She kept on promising wheat , sari , ration card . |
| 28 | The UFC 's subsequent system rewarded those who took on extra students cheaply . |
| 29 | Viscount Knebworth notes an early colour line drawn by the world heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan who took on white challengers but refused to fight Jackson ( no date , p.56 ) . |
| 30 | The views of people who had previously looked after those who died sometimes reflected their gratitude and admiration for the people who took on this task . |