Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 2 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 3 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 4 | He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , though he felt as crushed as the thistle she had just stood on . |
| 6 | Friends from the council he had once served on . |
| 7 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 8 | Now , in the middle of the biggest case she had ever worked on , she had problems of a much larger scale and Kate was aware that her life would never be the same again . |
| 9 | Arsenal fans still talk about former Highbury heroes Michael Thomas and David Rocastle , the main men from the Championship-winning team who have now moved on to Liverpool and Leeds . |
| 10 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 11 | Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on . |
| 12 | Any character who has n't hung on at least 8 feet up the stairs ( 9 feet for a Dwarf , 10 for a Halfling ) will be submerged below the filth . |
| 13 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
| 14 | Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life . |
| 15 | The man who 'd just strolled on to the terrace was tall , very lean , very dark . |
| 16 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 17 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
| 18 | With the advent of the General Theory the whole of the 43′ residual could be explained to within observational uncertainties , and this was a major success for the General Theory , a success it has since built on . |
| 19 | Demand is so high that there is bound to be plenty of interest in two new properties in need of some tender loving care which have just come on to the market . |
| 20 | She made it in four , her hair still wet from the shower , wearing jeans and a T-shirt beneath the white coat she had hastily thrown on . |
| 21 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 22 | But he may find his new sporting pursuits bunkered by some retirement activity he had n't planned on . |
| 23 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 24 | I can remember every track I 've ever raced on , every bump , every turn … ’ |