Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] on [art] [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 Christina warmed to her and was glad for the trouble she 'd taken on the Morris 's account .
3 The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance .
4 In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands .
5 Two million had died and the world had hung on a heartbeat , and the sky had blazed like a thermonuclear sun standing still .
6 Hastily he redirected his attention towards the circular screen that he had hung on the wall in place of an oil painting of some horned , scaly jungle monster .
7 Charlie stared up at his mother 's framed photo that Becky had hung on the wall .
8 The words had hung on the air , heavy with innuendo , and an act of simple kindness had been spoiled .
9 The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory .
10 Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 .
11 He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 My boss knew he had taken on a lesbian when I was appointed .
15 He had a lot of sympathy for the girl , she had taken on a lot and was doing it well .
16 The pain had taken on a form , which cried , and dribbled from every orifice .
17 Only one company questioned , who insisted on complete anonymity , had taken on an ex-headhunter into a position it had been seeking to fill , and admitted that it had been a disastrous mistake .
18 Malcolm had taken on an assistant by this time , Nils Stevenson .
19 To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world .
20 By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War .
21 His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple .
22 The London buses by this time had taken on the look of the more modern style and were being driven by diesel engines , also they were capable of carrying as many as fifty-six passengers .
23 Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion .
24 Sarah 's voice had taken on the tone of an interrogation .
25 His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt .
26 The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority .
27 She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets .
28 Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls .
29 It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) .
30 No-one cared how long we had taken on the route .
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