Example sentences of "[vb past] on [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , I told myself , the success of Aunt Louise and me living together hung on such fragile things as unselfishness and the making of adjustments ; and with shame I led my thoughts towards all those people living squashed together in real discomfort and privation . |
| 2 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 3 | Everything hung on this final event of the year . |
| 4 | Where others might have been satisfied just to become editor of The Times , he took on one public job after another . |
| 5 | She took on two alternating roles here , working for six-month periods as Acquisitions Librarian and as Serials Librarian , alternating with our other Assistant Librarian . |
| 6 | There was never owt to be done with Jake when he took on that wild-eyed look . ’ |
| 7 | In doing so , she also shows how a literary education took on this curious status in India before the state took any role in popular education in England and before literary studies had been institutionalized as ‘ English ’ . |
| 8 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 9 | Later , she gave up the childminding and took on some secretarial work in the mornings which still allowed her to continue with her lunch-time job . |
| 10 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 11 | And finally , it brought on that rich cast of wooden-topped rustics , the Starkadders , with Aunt Ada Doom in the star part , not to speak of the simpleton whose main pleasure in life was doing the washing up , or as he called it , clettering the dishes with his liddle mop . |
| 12 | Mr Major insisted on further severe cuts . |
| 13 | It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor . |
| 14 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 15 | It differed in only two respects , that the turntable was a much narrower arrangement than the Wolverton one , and that when in the uncoupled position , it rested on a single support carried on two small wheels . |
| 16 | Bulleid introduced new and more comfortable main-line and electric suburban trains , the latter including a double-deck prototype train for the crowded Kent lines and a revolutionary prototype general-purpose steam locomotive carried on two steam-driven power bogies . |
| 17 | Brecht carried on this collective principle in the course of his later productions ( Willett 1978 ) . |