Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing left now , but to grow old , but to grow old and take on the burden of her mother growing even older . |
| 2 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 3 | Exhaust fumes made her drowsy and brought on a headache and pains in her eyes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |