Example sentences of "on a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis . |
| 2 | ‘ You see , we usually take on a couple of girls locally for when the season picks up . |
| 3 | The loose skin of Vologsky 's cheeks and lower chin quivered under the increasing pull of the G-force and his entire body seemed to take on a couple of stone in extra weight . |
| 4 | The highlight of the week on Lough Owel was the magnificent wild trout of 9lb 9ozs taken on a Mepps near Srudarra Island by Richard Malone , Portarlington . |
| 5 | The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so . |
| 6 | Some of them were spattered with blood from the carcasses that hung on a row of meat-hooks nearby . |
| 7 | You are , perhaps , the captain of a pirate ship , proposing to take on a cargo of slaves because it 's easy money . |
| 8 | The barriers take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements , national market organisations ( such as co-operatives or trade associations ) which discriminate against other EC nationals , and abusive monopolisation of markets . |
| 9 | Gold in its natural form glows deep amber yellow , but when mixed with the various alloys it takes on a variety of hues . |
| 10 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 11 | His face took on a mask of blankness . |
| 12 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 13 | Several had been taken on a yacht at sea . |
| 14 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 15 | For many people , the mere fact of entering a Home can bring on a bout of incontinence . |
| 16 | Roman asked mildly , and Garry 's rather weak features took on a look of selfcongratulation . |
| 17 | Many bands have taken on a style of clothes which they bought second-hand . |
| 18 | If other readers have been victims of con tricks why not pass on a warning to others through our Letters Page ? |
| 19 | She 'd put on a dress for lunch . |
| 20 | The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity . |
| 21 | And Waxman 's Carmen Fantasy takes on a dimension of passion rarely heard in such an undisguised pot-pourri entertainment . |
| 22 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 23 | By means of the Ulster Canal it carries on a communication between Belfast and Enniskillen , and with Newry ( and the sea ) by the Newry Navigation . |
| 24 | If , also — is allowed to be a random variable the analysis , though still tedious , takes on a degree of order that is valuable . |
| 25 | Or suppose , again , that your neighbour has agreed with you that he will not open a public house or carry on a school of music next door , and does and threatens to continue doing one or the other ; or that you have a right to light for your windows , and he threatens to erect a building within three feet of them . |
| 26 | The street took on a sense of unreality , the posters outside the theatre announcing the new Season , a huge photograph of Gesner , some bonbon papers blowing along the pavement , a surly young man sidling up to the front of the theatre . |
| 27 | Seventeen Stormont MPs were taken on a tour of inspection by the University for Derry Action Committee and one of them , Dr Robert Nixon , the Stormont Unionist MP for North Down , declared that they had been misled by the Lockwood Report and that there was no shortage of suitable land or amenities in the city . |
| 28 | If a Japanese firm were brought on a tour around West Belfast they would see all the barbed wire and be discouraged . |
| 29 | We now have a situation where , in the unskilled occupations , an employer will take on a woman in preference to a man — since he would expect higher wages . |
| 30 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |