Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So at the end of each appointment you want a result and a result is either the business or introductions , hopefully both so I hang on the importance again . |
| 2 | Are the pegs attached to the tiles so they hang on the the lathes ? |
| 3 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 4 | Judy 's house was struck by lightning during that storm , and moments later she switched on the radio to hear that he had died . |
| 5 | Often he takes on the legs-apart , guitar pose with Solowka mirroring his every move while massive grins threaten to slice their faces in two . |
| 6 | Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court . |
| 7 | Today we take on the League leaders , Gosling Celtic , and will be out to prove our Top Ten position is no fluke . |
| 8 | Abruptly she switched on the light . |
| 9 | Then she switched on the indicator . |
| 10 | Then we switched on the TV and had a cup of tea . |
| 11 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |
| 12 | Then he switched on the torch and splashed through the puddle in the concrete to the shed . |
| 13 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
| 14 | When he heard the bedroom door shut again he switched on the kettle . |