Example sentences of "and [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a gamble , Seb bought a second plough and took on another ploughman . |
| 2 | The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches . |
| 3 | She was involved in planning the activities with the advisory teacher and took on full responsibility for organising the equipment for each session . |
| 4 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 5 | Fashioned from smoky green glass , tightly corked and wired , they would be packed with straw for protection and carried on wooden poles slotted through their individual baskets of woven metal . |