Example sentences of "they [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 2 | On my third shelf , I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me . |
| 3 | And there 's no telling quite what they will do … some nights they put on a full stage show , other times there may be a game or a sing song to join in with … but whatever the day , whatever the time there 's one thing you wo n't be at Tropicana , and that 's bored ! |
| 4 | But when Mexican stations moved from the era of foreign capital to the period of nationalist fervour , they took on a new self-conscious national grandeur , complete with the acres of frescos which Aldous Huxley noted on his visit to Mexico . |
| 5 | How many of us can say that someone changed when they took on a certain job or changed when something happened at work . |
| 6 | They took on a great many new responsibilities . |
| 7 | But at lambing time they take on a total change of character and they can sometimes become very aggressive . |
| 8 | It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible . |
| 9 | Work on the house still continues , and each year they take on a new project . |
| 10 | But in the second order system they take on a different set of structural features . |
| 11 | Tonight at 8.00 p.m. they take on a Chinese pairing in their bid to reach the final tomorrow . |
| 12 | Tonight at 8.00 p.m. they take on a Chinese pairing in their bid to reach the final tomorrow . |
| 13 | This project will examine the process through which boys and girls adapt to this regime , and how they take on a particular social gender identity within the institution . |