Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Onetti never fully fleshes out his characters since in life we can never really know what lies behind the faces of those we meet or pass on the street . |
| 2 | Finally , interviewers are often hesitant to broach the question of one partner wishing to resign , so at interview we raise the issue and offer reassurance that should it ever occur the remaining partner would either also resign or take on the post full time . |
| 3 | He was manipulating a kind of toggle or switch on the head of his cane . |
| 4 | You open the papers or switch on the radio or television and find out . |
| 5 | However , in case of foreign participation in excess of 20 per cent of the equity or 5 million forints the assessment is reduced by 20 per cent , but if more than half of the income is derived from manufacturing goods or carrying on the business of a hotel , and the stock capital exceeds 25 million forints and the foreign participation exceeds 30 per cent , then during the first five years the tax is reduced by 60 per cent and thereafter by 40 per cent . |
| 6 | Loss or damage to personal effects and baggage taken , sent in advance or purchased on holiday ( including clothing and personal effects worn or carried on the person , trunks , suitcases and like receptacles ) . |
| 7 | If the theatre is a long distance away from the ward , equipment may be taken from the ward on a post-operative tray or carried on the theatre trolley . |
| 8 | A picture that hangs on the wall is , by definition , isolated from both room and people . |
| 9 | ‘ Another thing that we 've had a lot of use from was the baby bouncer ; it 's the type that hangs on the door frame . |
| 10 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 11 | The room was bare , except for the staircase , and a pair of indifferent watercolours of dead flowers that hung on the wall opposite the door . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rather : thin muslin sheets of brown and red were being pulled past his eyes , patterned like the blankets woven by the women , patterned like the rug that hung on the wall in his daughter 's room . |
| 14 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 15 | He moved closer to where his daughter was starting again to brush the mud from the coat that hung on the side of the kitchen dresser . |
| 16 | The businessman was staring in angry disbelief at the glittering computer graphic that hung on the screen before him . |
| 17 | It is the car that took on the Rocket and won . |
| 18 | ‘ It happened in the gym of this club right in the middle of my training , ’ he recalled , ‘ but it was not the training that brought on the attack although I had probably overdone things . |
| 19 | I always will be , ’ claiming that taking on the pop funk sound of the moment was a perfect fulfilment of punk 's evangelist logic . |
| 20 | Had the management sided with the latter , it would have had to stop the operators from ‘ tampering ’ with the machine controls — perhaps by withholding a key that switches on the editing equipment . |
| 21 | The very activity is also an expression of faith in the tradition , of a willingness to understand oneself and the world in its terms and to carry on the argument , which in the area with which we are concerned is inescapably a normative argument , within the general framework defining the tradition . |
| 22 | ‘ OK , Ellis , take out the tray and bring on the sex maniac . ’ |
| 23 | Contestants will join him in the arena to try to do a Tyrus — and bring on the tears again . |
| 24 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 25 | One day the hospital rang Mrs Britton to say he had died , and to pass on the news to me . |
| 26 | ‘ Well I Wonder ’ releases the eardrum pressure and hangs on the line ‘ Please , keep me in mind ’ complete with the synthetic rain of an outsider 's view of Manchester . |
| 27 | They rustle in the ditches , they tug and hang on the hedge . |
| 28 | The commendations are framed and hang on the wall of the Commandant 's office . |
| 29 | It was submitted that an owner can not turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting , he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate . |
| 30 | Massage the skin and pass on the pressure and bingo ! |