Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 2 | I put on the cockney something rotten . |
| 3 | Wait a minute till I switch on the other light . |
| 4 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 5 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 6 | If you put on the pink and rode to hounds like English gentlefolk these days , some wee feller with an Armalite would blow your head off . |
| 7 | Let's have a bit of light on the subject " She switched on the blue urinal and looked at it . |
| 8 | Naked , she switched on the powerful shower-jets , and raised her voice to be heard above them . |
| 9 | She switched on the electric fire , the room was freezing as if hung with icicles . |
| 10 | She switched on the electric kettle and made a cup of instant coffee flavoured with powdered milk and artificial sweetener . |
| 11 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 12 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 13 | And after all , what price can you put on the immense satisfaction of taking dew-fresh vegetables to the kitchen within minutes of harvesting them ? |
| 14 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
| 15 | She even put on sheer stockings and a brief pleated skirt instead of her usual jeans , then , as final proof of her new outlook on life , she put on the new pink sweater and danced out into the sitting-room , calling . |
| 16 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 17 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 18 | Did she put on the magic dress , the dress made of pain and courage and become herself transformed , into a human woman , lovely and gentle , whom some other wicked creature had once enchanted too ? |
| 19 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 20 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 21 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 22 | We dismounted from the BMW and Werewolf slipped on a pair of gold-rimmed shades , which reminded me to put on the plain glass Yuppie specs I 'd borrowed from Fly . |
| 23 | ‘ But we want all the complications down in black and white before we switch on the green light , ’ said Mr Wright . |
| 24 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 25 | So far if we take on the ninety ninety two figures we attended something like eight hundred bonfires . |
| 26 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 29 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 30 | The Ruffians ' ( 4th XI ) season drew to a close on Saturday when they took on the third team 's opposition at Aldershot . |