Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it is possible to decide what particular activities bring on an attack of giddiness . |
| 2 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 3 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 4 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 5 | All readers hang on a minute Careto Profaine good stuff . |
| 6 | Over the sink at the other end there was a shelf with cups , saucers , and plates ; a saucepan hung on a hook and there was a kettle on the oil stove . |
| 7 | She escaped into the house and went through to her bedroom to put on a dress . |
| 8 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 9 | Here 's a decoration with a difference — a super Santa plaque to hang on a wall . |
| 10 | If the analyst normalises to the conventional written form , the words take on a formality and specificity which necessarily misrepresent the spoken form . |
| 11 | Wiz sounds as elusive and fragile as ever — lost somewhere in his own private world — while musically the songs take on a rougher-edged , gritty power . |
| 12 | They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep . |
| 13 | And Waxman 's Carmen Fantasy takes on a dimension of passion rarely heard in such an undisguised pot-pourri entertainment . |
| 14 | When the household took on a maid , Simenon began an affair with her which lasted 15 years before his wife found out . |
| 15 | The court held that , despite its literal width , the expression did not embrace two Chileans resident in Chile who had never been to England , although they were partners with persons in England carrying on a business here . |
| 16 | The barriers take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements , national market organisations ( such as co-operatives or trade associations ) which discriminate against other EC nationals , and abusive monopolisation of markets . |
| 17 | Lists inventory of furniture in a Haunted House inventory of equipment to take on a journey/expedition menus for the King 's celebratory banquet or a friend 's birthday party shopping list for ingredients for a cake shopping list for Christmas presents census returns — who lives here , what do they do ? |
| 18 | Events in our own lives take on a pattern , as if we really were walking with God in our midst , guided continually by his presence . |
| 19 | Eighteen months ago the CBI suggested that the HSE take on a number of extra people to monitor the burgeoning biotechnology industry , but this has not been done . |
| 20 | There was a gas boiler , comparatively modern , mounted above a deep square porcelain sink much stained and with a clean but crumpled tea towel hanging on a hook beside it . |
| 21 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 22 | The ten contestants will be in the area for four days , from June 24–27 , as Dungannon takes on a festival atmosphere . |
| 23 | It so happened that the string hung on a sprig of an elder that grew out of the mote , and this confirmed them that ‘ t was the Devill . |
| 24 | ‘ Activity' seems to be one car — all I see as I meander my way through the hills above the lonely hamlet of Núpur. beyond it is the biggest fish-drying frame I have so far seen , with overflow fish hung on a wire fence alongside . |
| 25 | An old sword hung on a wall of his house as an ornament . |
| 26 | Her place hung on a thread . |
| 27 | If the children are unused to the teacher taking on a role , however , they will want to push you into an authority role . |
| 28 | A few days earlier , a combined Army/Navy/ Youth team took on an F.A . |
| 29 | At least , Denise and Jean-Louis Lavergne claim they are the lovers in the world 's most romantic picture taken on a spring morning in 1950 . |
| 30 | But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges . |