Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 2 | After all , it 's the care assistants who really know the details , so we like them to pass on that knowledge . ’ |
| 3 | The experience of working for a number of American executives , who were too busy protecting their jobs and the inflated salaries that went with them to pass on any responsibilities to me , made a move imperative after about a year . |
| 4 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 5 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 6 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 7 | As I said on second reading , this House is the ultimate guardian of the constitutional liberties of the British people . |
| 8 | He misses a risky plant , I take on some banana , and win on the pink . |
| 9 | I am writing to you to pass on some information regarding Clown Loaches . |
| 10 | you know on first day when I was here |
| 11 | Her art is most successful when she takes on archetypal roles and makes her audience aware , simultaneously , of how immediately recognizable , widely shared and transparently obvious these roles are . |
| 12 | After you have studied the routes and prepared through do-it-yourself practice , your PP may give the names of the places you pass on one route , and at the conclusion you pick out which of the prepared journeys she was making . |
| 13 | Would you take on this job ? |
| 14 | With , with regards to Camco 's Eastern European sales drive , does this have any er , implications in terms of er , working capital movements , in terms of helping them fund those acquisitions and what sort of er , provisions perhaps , are you taking on those sales ? |
| 15 | On the 1st March she took on wider responsibilities as Head of Scripture Union 's Development and Communication Department . |
| 16 | It came quite late : Nilsson was 40 when she took on this Minnie . |
| 17 | I admired the way she took on this part of the world and conquered it . ’ |
| 18 | She took on another personality and a new role as an outlaw . |
| 19 | I say she brought on that heart attack ! ’ |
| 20 | So , if you go on thirty days unfortunately we we 'll enforce that . |
| 21 | She kept on promising wheat , sari , ration card . |
| 22 | How did you get on last week ? |
| 23 | Finally , record the exercise that you take on each day that you record the details of your food and drink . |
| 24 | ( 'Would you look after my children while I go out and enjoy myself ? ’ 'Would you take on extra work because I am tired ? ' ) |
| 25 | Your new commitments will be relevant in working out how much you can afford to pay out , but the law will favour the children of your first family — after all , no one forced you to take on another relationship , and it would be unfair to the children of your first marriage if they suffered because you chose to do so . |
| 26 | Do we carry on burning fossil fuels at rapid rates ? |
| 27 | Well I mean I can assure them that the , the National Rivers Authority in the Thames region is monitoring rivers on a daily basis throughout the year and that we would hope to deal with pollution incidents as they occur , and we would hope with our monitoring and the pressure we put on third parties to er actually over the years , to improve things from what they are at the moment and to make things better . |
| 28 | With our current facilities we can do a set number of coronary artery bypass graft operations in any period , and thus if we operate on more patients from one district by definition we operate on fewer patients from another . |
| 29 | With our current facilities we can do a set number of coronary artery bypass graft operations in any period , and thus if we operate on more patients from one district by definition we operate on fewer patients from another . |
| 30 | Noel explains why the number is so small : ‘ When we took on this responsibility it was made clear that there were to be no extra funds specifically for underwater archaeology . |