Example sentences of "[vb past] on his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was appointed a director in 1987 and took on his current role in January last year . |
| 2 | He took on his new role supervising a training and selection course on Saturday at Jow Walton 's Youth Centre , Berwick Hills , Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | When Charlton took on his last club job at Newcastle , midfielder John Trewick asked about one-twos , which had been encouraged by former boss Arthur Cox . |
| 4 | Joshua put on his black jacket and checked his reflection in the mirror ; the picture of a respectable Chapel-going citizen . |
| 5 | Richard took off his slippers and put on his black shoes again , and they went out . |
| 6 | They felt pleased when the judge put on his black hat . |
| 7 | He queued miserably outside the nearer of the two occupied lavatories for five minutes until it was vacated by a depressed-looking oriental , washed and shaved unhappily in cold water , put on his ridiculous uniform and ran down to breakfast . |
| 8 | And when they got back he put on his working jacket with a sigh of relief and said , ‘ Well , that 's over . ’ |
| 9 | He put on his dark glasses as he crossed the other carpark , the one reserved for major executives . |
| 10 | He put on his dark glasses and smiled with only his mouth . |
| 11 | Stok put on his uniform cap and a thigh-length padded jacket of the sort that Russian troops wear as fatigue dress when it 's very cold . |
| 12 | They had to wait while the Substitute put on his new galoshes , murmuring with a cigar between his teeth : ‘ Do n't want to miss anything this time … ’ |
| 13 | Charlie put on his new suit , the one Mrs Smelley had commented on , his best shirt , his father 's tie , a flat cap and his only pair of leather shoes . |
| 14 | Wycliffe put on his cud-chewing look and settled comfortably in his chair . |
| 15 | At seven o'clock Tony washed in cold water and put on his clean shirt . |
| 16 | Gabriel put on his white shirt and scarlet tabard with the gold embroidery . |
| 17 | One damp , cold , windy night a few weeks later , Fagin put on his heavy coat and , with the collar pulled up high to hide his face , left his home . |
| 18 | ( He put on his hurt face . ) |
| 19 | He had gargled-with a powerfully pepperminted , snake-green wash , and , with a pair of tiny scissors he carried on his Swiss Army penknife , had cut the hairs in his nose . |
| 20 | He carried on his lighthearted banter to the rigidly tense men . |
| 21 | Following her father 's death in 1866 she carried on his pioneering work on the development of the screw propeller for steamships . |
| 22 | Instead he carried on his own trade as a basket-weaver . |