Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 2 | The loose skin of Vologsky 's cheeks and lower chin quivered under the increasing pull of the G-force and his entire body seemed to take on a couple of stone in extra weight . |
| 3 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 4 | As with Diana 's romance , events began to take on a momentum of their own . |
| 5 | They insisted she had insulted counter girls after she had been refused discount on a slinky black evening dress which she saw hanging on a rail in the fashionable Hyper Hyper clothes store in London 's Kensington High Street . |
| 6 | Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time . |
| 7 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 8 | Two million had died and the world had hung on a heartbeat , and the sky had blazed like a thermonuclear sun standing still . |
| 9 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 10 | Fürst Franz Thun-Hohenstein remembers : ‘ When the enormous picture arrived packed up , my sisters and I were curious to see and touch something which really came from Decin , from Bohemia , which had taken on a kind of dream-like quality for us ; Decin did live on for us , but was unattainable . |
| 11 | My boss knew he had taken on a lesbian when I was appointed . |
| 12 | He had a lot of sympathy for the girl , she had taken on a lot and was doing it well . |
| 13 | The pain had taken on a form , which cried , and dribbled from every orifice . |
| 14 | Amaryllis had put on a dress which had arrived only that noon from London . |
| 15 | All the same , most of them were splendid and she was glad she had put on a dress today . |