Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted me to pass on a message to the police . |
| 2 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 3 | I hang on a second whilst I get the phone . |
| 4 | It is rather like someone switching on a cassette in one room and then walking into another . |
| 5 | Mum and I get on a lot better these days . |
| 6 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 7 | Clearly this was no place for me , and having tiptoed back to the sitting-room , I switched on a light and picked up the evening paper . |
| 8 | I dreamt I went I think I went to France , I think I was , I went on a day trip to France |
| 9 | While my mother attempted to sort out our family finances — no easy matter with the capital , La Paz , virtually divorced from all communication — I took on a job of work for Porua . |
| 10 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 11 | I take on a board all the comments that are made here , I I think they do need investigation . |
| 12 | The Strap was a thick leather belt , about 3 inches wide , which hung on a hook . |
| 13 | The cupboard was just deep enough to hold him sitting cross-legged , his head concealed in the pinstriped folds of Francie 's second-best suit , which hung on a hanger . |
| 14 | Athelstan saw the pearl pendant which hung on a gold chain from one ear lobe . |
| 15 | Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence . |
| 16 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 17 | In Anglo-Irish. erm ‘ There was a small tap on the pane , as though something had struck it , followed by a light , though abundant falling , as though grains of sand were being dropped from a window above , and then a more intense and regular sound , which took on a rhythm and became fluid , resonant , musical , infinite , universal . |
| 18 | For me this has been a very exciting year in which to take on a directorship of the department . |
| 19 | Er can you hang on a minute Simon ? |
| 20 | Er can you hang on a minute ? |
| 21 | Can you hang on a minute ? |
| 22 | Can you hang on a minute , Bedge ? |
| 23 | But you worry on a bit longer , lad . |
| 24 | ‘ You put on a head and face cover , ’ she explained almost mechanically , ‘ go into a chamber naked , and come out covered in white powder . |
| 25 | Perhaps if you perhaps if you hang on a minute , erm well Jacqueline want wants me to answer one question for her . |
| 26 | She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself . |
| 27 | So , the sort of man who took on a mansus absus might have been an immigrant attracted by freedom from labour services ; or a son who feared that his patrimony , or his share of it , would not be big enough to support his family ; or a rich peasant with several adult sons and labour to spare . |
| 28 | After that she put on a dress of burnt sienna which contrasted with her pale gold hair and made her feel more feminine . |
| 29 | She put on a jacket , though he would know why she had the jacket on , and went out , under his cold furious dissecting gaze . |
| 30 | If you take on a project , you take it on and put everything into it . ’ |