Example sentences of "[verb] on the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 2 | In this new position he could see a picture of a woman hanging on the wall opposite . |
| 3 | ‘ We walked into this shop in Denmark Street , ’ relates Niall Linehan , ‘ with the intention of buying a spare guitar , and I 'd had my eye on this Gibson Les Paul hanging on the wall there . |
| 4 | Sedan chair ( linked to three — a tree ) : A blossom tree with sedan chairs hanging on the branches instead of flowers ; |
| 5 | Contestants will join him in the arena to try to do a Tyrus — and bring on the tears again . |
| 6 | So at the end of each appointment you want a result and a result is either the business or introductions , hopefully both so I hang on the importance again . |
| 7 | This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector . |
| 8 | ‘ And Theo , ’ he confided , ‘ when I pass on the heath here such a woman with a child on her arm , it pierces me right through , the melancholy , and my eyes get moist . ’ |
| 9 | They considered the saleability of a washstand , a swinging mirror , a flowered pottery basin and jug , and then as they descended by the back stairs , the plates in dull red and dark blue and gold glaze that hung on the wall there and might , from the hieroglyphs on their backs , possibly be Chinese and perhaps valuable . |
| 10 | He looked at his wife 's portrait which hung on the wall opposite where he sat . |
| 11 | Washing hung on the line outside and their £10,000 car was in the drive . |
| 12 | still takes on the responsibility there ! |
| 13 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 14 | Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 . |
| 15 | if it requires a recall of emotion , it is often sufficient merely to switch on the emotion rather than elicit it ( as when you trip over the cat ! ) . |
| 16 | For example , substance P can be used to control not its own synthesis but some other pathway , just as a thermostat could be used to switch on the television instead of the boiler . |
| 17 | He switched on the recorder briefly to record any distant sounds which would add atmosphere to those of the approaching train and the distant whistle of the engine . |
| 18 | He switched on the smile again . |
| 19 | Reluctantly , Mrs. Henry bent down and switched on the vacuum-cleaner again . |
| 20 | At last , exasperated beyond bearing , I switched on the light again . |
| 21 | Well where did you go on the evening anyway ? |
| 22 | I also took on the position knowingly of the bad reputation in Scotland of Sports to the trade regarding hotel sales of your equipment , but was promised that this practice would be cut out . |
| 23 | Sharif-Emami took on the job twice , the second time in 1978 ; Mansur was assassinated in 1965 , like Razmara in 1951 ; Amir Abbas Hoveyda , who replaced Mansur , had a long run but was eased out in 1977 to give way to Amuzegar , a successful OPEC hawk as previous oil minister . |
| 24 | In his memory , it took on the aura almost of an age of innocence . |
| 25 | Let them dry overnight before you switch on the heat again . |
| 26 | It seems that many men , however , show little in the way of symptoms and may therefore pass on the disease quite unknowingly . |
| 27 | Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 28 | It is a team photo taken on the pitch shortly after the presentation of the championship trophy . |
| 29 | Argument about rival therapies has taken on the passion previously given to theological debate . |
| 30 | Lunch was taken on the terrace alone beneath the warming rays of the April sunshine , and after that she continued her exploration of the house , amazed at the number of rooms that were apparently shut up and wondering why it was that a man like Marc Alexander Vila would choose to live alone in this enormous and obviously expensive mausoleum . |