Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 2 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 3 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 4 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 5 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 7 | We held it was the duty of revolutionary Socialists to denounce both imperialist peace and imperialist war as the inevitable consequences of Capitalism and , whichever came , to carry on the independent class struggle of the workers , directing it towards the conquest of Worker 's Power … . |
| 8 | There is only one Arsenal today , and I can not conceive another simply because no other club have players fitted to carry on the same ideas . ’ |
| 9 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 10 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 11 | The officer 's optional dark blue cape , with a black velvet collar , and a black cord fastening , seen here hanging on the left breast . |
| 12 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 13 | So this was done , and on the very next day fine grapes were found hanging on the youngest brother 's vine . |
| 14 | They were in a windowless hole of a dressing room , backstage of the El Paradiso — another charity , bring on the bloody drag ! |
| 15 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 16 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 17 | At about this time a hitherto unsuccessful fortune-teller living on the other side of the block chanced to glance into her scrying bowl , gave a small scream and , within the hour , had sold her jewellery , various magical accoutrements , most of her clothes and almost all her other possessions that could not be conveniently carried on the fastest horse she could buy . |
| 18 | 8 information about other books published , materials , tapes , etc — often carried on the inside back cover . |
| 19 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
| 20 | This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other . |
| 21 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 22 | Loose canvas seat covers were also carried on the upper decks . |
| 23 | These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives . |
| 24 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |
| 25 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 26 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 27 | The new aqueduct was necessary to allow ships to pass on the new Manchester Ship Canal . |
| 28 | Finally , the whole of the Gospel leads to the commission of the Church , to go out and baptise , to teach , and to pass on the new law of Christianity ( Matt. |
| 29 | As the original solute is successively diluted , so the mirroring , shape-specific water polymers build up and continue to pass on the shape-encoded information to successive potencies long after the original starting material has been diluted out . |
| 30 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |