Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next .
2 In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with
3 Her ability to change form is illustrated in the quotation which opened this chapter , where Jung describes how his mother seemed to take on another shape and quality at night .
4 The alarm in Leeming 's face was obvious ; the confusion that followed brought on another bout of coughing .
5 I The committee decided to pass on this information to the editor of Out On Strike , the strikers " newsletter , to use at his discretion .
6 I contacted their next-of-kin and I undertook to pass on any scraps of information , or even rumour , that I could glean from every possible source .
7 The Prince of Wales is president of my organisation , Scottish Business in the Community , and ever since he agreed to take on that role he as dedicated a large amount of time to helping us , and in turn , helping communities , not because it 's it 's fashionable because he really believes in it and he wants to do hard work on our behalf and on the countrys ' behalf .
8 The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out .
9 She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds .
10 One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus .
11 Men were therefore the first people with private property and soon they wanted to pass on this property to their children .
12 It found that 40 per cent of companies , mainly in the retail and financial sectors , intended taking on more staff in the next six months .
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