Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] on the [noun sg] " 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 | He was manipulating a kind of toggle or switch on the head of his cane . |
| 3 | You open the papers or switch on the radio or television and find out . |
| 4 | ‘ OK , Ellis , take out the tray and bring on the sex maniac . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They rustle in the ditches , they tug and hang on the hedge . |
| 7 | The commendations are framed and hang on the wall of the Commandant 's office . |
| 8 | Massage the skin and pass on the pressure and bingo ! |
| 9 | Groups order through us , we place a ‘ bulk ’ order and pass on the saving when we send out the disks . |
| 10 | There were excited exclamations at the sight of the returned Emily and they flocked round her desk to welcome her back and pass on the gossip of the preceding week . |
| 11 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 12 | ‘ Get your foot down and switch on the siren . ’ |
| 13 | What we do is , pull the curtains shut and switch on the fire . |
| 14 | Next time just stay at home and switch on the telly , clever clogs . |
| 15 | I smoke my spliff and switch on the telly ; I am just in time for Neighbours . |
| 16 | People come home and switch on the telly , then they either hate it and switch off again , or they think , ’ It 's that bad , I 'll watch it ’ . ’ |
| 17 | Encouraged , Willis offered to fetch the mussels at once , and some plates and forks and vinegar , and switch on the radio while he was gone , to give them a bit of music . |
| 18 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 19 | Enough , he hoped , to form several companies and carry on the fight , using guerrilla tactics . |
| 20 | He could go to Ireland and join up with the Republican Army , and carry on the fight his father … no , not his father , but the man he loved as a father … had started . |
| 21 | Go left to the block marked 5 , and carry on the gem on the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 22 | The Ebrahimi type of doctrine is most likely to occur when a partnership is converted into a company but the same people are involved as before and carry on the business with much the same attitude . |
| 23 | He had been ready to defy the conventions and take on the world — and win ! he thought . |
| 24 | McIver ( 1987 ) describes that in retailing customers were persuaded to forgo the service provided by the friendly corner store and take on the labour of pushing trolleys around supermarkets because they made gains through cheaper prices and a wider choice of goods . |
| 25 | A company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( p 114 ) . |
| 26 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) . |
| 27 | There was nothing left now , but to grow old , but to grow old and take on the burden of her mother growing even older . |
| 28 | Hornet 's Richard Wolfenden points out that the company has not been liquidated but put on the back burner until production can be resumed abroad with lower costs and overheads . |