Example sentences of "took on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaubert knew of this fraternal weakness : the notes he took on parrots when researching Un coeur simple include a list of their maladies — gout , epilepsy , aphtha and throat ulcers . |
| 2 | Well the council started then and they took on machines of their own . |
| 3 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
| 4 | He got his men into a tight huddle before they took on arch-rivals Spain . |
| 5 | Suddenly its dead face took on life . |
| 6 | As Christian doctrine developed , and it was said that God in Christ took on humanity , in both Greek and Latin the inclusive term for humanity was used , not that specifically for a male human being . |
| 7 | But in any case it follows that the necessary prerequisite for ordination is the presence of a baptized human being ( not a monkey — in that God in Christ took on humanity ) . |
| 8 | But rather that in the incarnation God in Christ took on humanity ( the universal ) ; which is not to imply that he did not have particularities , which indeed one has to have to be human . |
| 9 | Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being . |
| 10 | Another , Thomas Wright , took on Rowley 's more routine business after 1715 , and became noted for his ‘ grand orreries ’ . |
| 11 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 12 | The Soviets materialised out of nowhere and their sensational win against New Zealand , as well as the electric final , where Argentina took on New Zealand , gave student rugby credibility and kudos . |
| 13 | The chief superintendent had a corner office with a view down onto the place where tenders took on loads of aviation fuel from huge land-based tanks . |
| 14 | Took on Liverpool after with just 45 minutes ' first-team football . |
| 15 | Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season . |
| 16 | The Information Minister , Michel Samaha , took on additional responsibility for Tourism ; Justice Minister Nasri al-Maalouf took on Foreign and Expatriate Affairs ; and Deputy Prime Minister and National Defence Minister Michel al-Murr took on Telecommunications and Posts . |
| 17 | The Pizza Eater took on Rachaela , gave her a red dress and a pale green apron , and asked her to put up her hair . |
| 18 | Today he took on Ian Hayden , a former British soldier , disabled when he was just eighteen . |
| 19 | Line took on shape and form . |
| 20 | To use the words of Henry James : ‘ in the light , strange and coloured , like that of a painted picture , which fixed the impression for her , objects took on values not hitherto so fully shown ’ . |
| 21 | But suppose that c and v took on values consistent with damped cycles , how then could we explain the observed regularity of cyclical fluctuations ? |
| 22 | You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’ |
| 23 | They are nonetheless a big comedown from the 1960s , when federal trustbusters took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . |
| 24 | Twenty five of their eighty staff have gone , and they took on nom apprentices last year . |
| 25 | But above all he is the man who took on Chanel , the greatest fashion legend of the twentieth century . |
| 26 | The week before England took on Scotland for the Grand Slam , Harlequins travelled to Gloucester for a league match . |
| 27 | However , the Library also took on deposit from Messrs Strathern and Blair , WS , a batch of business papers of James Ballantyne and Co. , 1824–33 , largely on the financial and literary affairs of Scott . |
| 28 | above the water-channels we took on trust |
| 29 | But along the edge of the attic , under the low eaves , stood three old-fashioned trunks , of the kind people once took on cruises , " for use on the voyage " . |
| 30 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |