Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that UK households , like US ones , are struggling to repay the debts they took on in the boom years of the 1980s , he explained . |
| 2 | The lads I put on to it had to look behind every one of those bloody paintings for a wall safe . |
| 3 | The great satisfaction was that the aspects we concentrated on in training — defence and winning loose ball — worked out well . |
| 4 | Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital — including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action — gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself . |
| 5 | Women are not like that ; or at least , the details , the weaknesses they dwell on in narration are only rarely the physical ones that men delight in . |
| 6 | They leased a grand house at 4 Tenterden Street , just off Hanover Square , the garden of which ran north and contained the workshops which fronted on to Oxford Street . |
| 7 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 8 | His point was that the yobs who came on to the pitch did so from the comfort of a new , multi-million pound stand . |
| 9 | So if you 're a woman , all the genes you hand on to your children were copied before you yourself were born , in the precursors of your egg cells . |
| 10 | The YTS we passed on to our Plant Raiser was no better . |
| 11 | Certainly , when you realized my connection with the case at Bloomwater , they were the bully-boys you turned on to me . |
| 12 | The ideas pioneered in many of the courses which followed on from the ABC document are now central to much of the thinking behind records of achievement . |
| 13 | The power-struggles which went on across much of the period were reflected right through society , and the surviving court rolls for Sussex often illuminate activities of considerable violence . |
| 14 | The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well . |
| 15 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 16 | I 'd really like to erm tell you the brief story of the events which lead on from Good Friday to Pentecost Day . |
| 17 | I 'm just too disheartened to intellectualise about the fascists you reported on in the Love Sees No Colour issue ( FACE 44 ) . |