Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At home we switch on the video and fall asleep in the chair almost before Mavis has opened up shop . |
| 32 | We shall assume that , before we switch on the current , H = 0 and B = 0 , a natural-enough assumption . |
| 33 | If we carry on the way we are there can only be one outcome and that is success . |
| 34 | Steven Holmes , a pupil of Handsworth Grammar School in Birmingham , designed and painted a headboard which we carry on the front of the locomotive . |
| 35 | Someone and Something take on the attributes of cosmic bodies . |
| 36 | We look forward to giving further impetus to the process when we take on the presidency of the Community in the second half of the year . |
| 37 | It is possible to intensify poetry 's power over time if we take on the implications of Rosenblatt 's transactional theory , which is well described in Benton et al . |
| 38 | And first of all , I must say good luck to the eleven local sides taking part in tomorrow 's curtain raiser at Twickers before we take on the argy-bargies and thrash them . |
| 39 | It is clear that the premium is equivalent as far as factor prices are concerned to a tax on labour in the X sector ( for simplicity we take on the demand side the effects are also equivalent with the simplifying assumptions being made here . |
| 40 | Today we take on the League leaders , Gosling Celtic , and will be out to prove our Top Ten position is no fluke . |
| 41 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |
| 42 | They pass on the saving to you . |
| 43 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 44 | ‘ Have you finished ? ’ they ask as you lie gasping , and when they switch on the light you expect to see a sign over the bed , NOW WASH YOUR HANDS . |
| 45 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 46 | Most people want many sons because they carry on the family line and that means our clan can claim more land . |
| 47 | The Swindon Robins are facing Black Thursday next week when they take on the Oxford Cheetahs at Blunsdon . |
| 48 | As part of this process some carers experience that in this capacity , whatever their skills in other directions , they take on the invisibility of their dependent , denigrated in a market oriented society as a burden . |
| 49 | How would you like to lead out the Merseyside Select XI at Goodison Park a week tomorrow when they take on the pride of Manchester in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial game ? |
| 50 | The Manchester United striker , who will tonight win his 51st cap for his country when they take on the RCS in a vital World Cup qualifier in Cardiff , believes this is one of the best Welsh teams for years . |