Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the compensations for being unable to read or carry on a casual conversation are overwhelming . |
| 2 | The lamp could be hooked onto the front of a miner 's cap or hung on a wooden roof support while he was working . |
| 3 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 4 | The expansion you will face in 1993 could well be on the creative front , making this an ideal year to go into production or take on a major commitment . |
| 5 | So CAMPAIGN is a very original product that takes on a huge task and just about succeeds … it can be criticised in certain areas , but on the whole is a very designed game that ‘ boldly goes where no game has been before … ‘ |
| 6 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 7 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 8 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm going home and put on a different pair of shoes though . |
| 11 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 12 | And takes on a surprising amount of colour : RED , naturally . |
| 13 | In this variation on a very traditional recipe , the fish is marinaded in lime juice and takes on a white , cooked appearance . |
| 14 | In the other half of the picture the shoulder-line tilts towards us … and the face retreats and takes on a mask-like , wall-like quality ’ , wrote John Russell . |
| 15 | He befriends a battered child , stays faithful to Tess Truchart despite the show stealing advances of Madonna 's Breathless Mahoney and takes on an all-star super cast of grotesques that include Al Pacino and Dustin ‘ Mumbles ’ Hoffman . |
| 16 | By the end of the programme Gary was much happier , showing much more pro-social behaviour and getting on a good deal better with his parents . |
| 17 | I mean if you 're a builder and you receive sixteen thousand , of , of that there 's a thousand pounds from Joe Bloggs builder whatnot , then the er the tax inspector will make a note , and pass on a little note to Joe Bloggs ' file that , yeah he paid Bill Smith a thousand pounds , and i that then should appear in his accounts , and if it does n't , then he 's a ripe subject for being investigated . |
| 18 | But I felt I could not lose him and hung on the hour-and-a-half walk firing the occasional question like a lifeline , till he succumbed to a conversation about the war poets : ‘ like old beggars under sacks … we cursed through sludge … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He slowed in flight , rolled expertly , backed away and then stalled and hung on the thin wind all at once . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be good to see the England lads again and to put on the international shirt , ’ says Gazza . |
| 21 | It is the private world of the student 's mind that is at issue , a world that should expand and take on a rich array of colours , within the course of studies . |
| 22 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 23 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 24 | Anyway , when the complete transferral was done , I dressed myself with care and switched on a full length mirror for an inspection . |
| 25 | In fact , the government ‘ took on ’ AT&T in the 1970s , and it was the Reagan administration of the 1980s — the villain of your piece — that secured real relief and brought on the phenomenal competition enjoyed today by refusing to accept the cosmetic settlement that had been negotiated by the Carter administration . |
| 26 | Mrs Smith accepted a sherry from her husband and looked resigned about the outcome of the evening and eventually excused herself to see to the dinner , and Mr Smith poured more whiskies and ‘ something harmless ’ for Nutty , which tasted delicious and brought on an amazing feeling of optimism . |
| 27 | Banishing an old life and taking on a new life and character when the time seemed ripe was a very Indian thing to do . |
| 28 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 29 | Austerity was Britain 's peculiar reward for surviving World War II unbeaten at the cost of selling her foreign assets and taking on a crippling load of debt to the United States . |
| 30 | Behind the trees the late afternoon sky was growing pale towards the horizon and taking on a pellucid apricot tint . |