Example sentences of "took [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Running a modern-day coaching inn became a fashionable activity after the painter John Fothergill took on the Spread Eagle at Thame in the 1920s and , later , the Three Swans at Market Harborough . |
| 2 | Loiseau took on the challenge . |
| 3 | But she 's not really complaining : Mozart launched her international career at the 1982 Aix Festival when at short notice , and at only 25 , she took on the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute . |
| 4 | He used ceremonial occasions to launch scathing attacks on conservatives and took on the role of the spokesman of all Hungarians , inside and outside the country . |
| 5 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 6 | He therefore took on the chairmanship of Tate $ Lyle on a part-time basis . |
| 7 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 8 | Undaunted , Ingrid took on the jobs , and through long , exhausting , financially unrewarding slog , completed them . |
| 9 | Charles took on the job of improving Diana 's geography and also of teaching her the tricks of the trade — how to handle the different sorts of engagements , how to remember names and avoid missing or offending anyone , how to pace herself , how to address people , what sort of questions to ask and how to steer clear of banana skins . |
| 10 | After the link in 1966 with Scripture Union , he took on the role of secretary instead for several years . |
| 11 | Zena , a sculptress , took on the responsibility of caring for her Down 's Syndrome grand-daughter when the mother ‘ upped and offed ’ . |
| 12 | Ramesh K , who took on the lease two years ago , has sold up and moved out . |
| 13 | In Jennings 's absence Neil Barker , one of this season 's England newcomers , took on the chief goalscoring role , ably supported by his captain Andy Halliday . |
| 14 | After the death of her mother , one lady took on the task of caring for her bereaved cat . |
| 15 | He took on the work , he says , ‘ because Warren asked me to . |
| 16 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 17 | golfers to maestro who took on the establishmentOpen victory put an end to system of subjugation |
| 18 | With the Prime Minister sitting , smiling , between this unlikely comic duo , Mr Patten took on the role of presenter Sue Lawley while Swansea-born Mr Heseltine — billed by the Tory chairman as ‘ the most famous living Welshman ’ — groped into his memory for an accent with which to parody Mr Kinnock . |
| 19 | Yevgeny Svetlanov took on the programme as advertised but , in the first half , those who failed to occupy seats missed little . |
| 20 | WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline . |
| 21 | In these circumstances , voluntary WEA members such as Rachael Evans in Bedfordshire and ( successively ) Barbara Brenchley and Margaret Bland in the Fenland took on the task of Federation secretary and , along with other enthusiasts , did their best to fulfil the non-teaching duties of a tutor-organiser . |
| 22 | Inexplicable , unprecedented and catastrophic , Waldsterben took on the character of an apocalyptic plague . |
| 23 | In 1988 T.R. Shipping took on the responsibility for the Rheintainer Line Agency in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | Mr. Charles Vaughan took on the role until 1961 when Micky Watson assumed both halves for a short time until the arrival of Mr. G.T. Edwards as Secretary , on an honorarium of £200 per annum . |
| 25 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 26 | She took on the ‘ difficult ’ painter more out of sympathy for Zborowski 's hopeless task than of belief in Modigliani . |
| 27 | More usually , as for instance in Scotland , one heir took on the duty . |
| 28 | The acquisition and painstaking restoration of Plas Teg , an exceptionally beautiful early seventeenth-century house in Clwyd , was a brave step for the private individual who took on the house with the help of grants . |
| 29 | The Wood Green Animal Shelter ( who kindly took on the SHE Dog Club when it grew too big for a magazine to handle ! ) run a highly successful registration scheme which , for those in favour of a mandatory system , could be a model for a national scheme . |
| 30 | A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper , which immediately took on the status of security blanket . |