Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckinghamshire under 21s are taking on Yorkshire in the semi final of the county championship … kick-off is at 2 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The week before England took on Scotland for the Grand Slam , Harlequins travelled to Gloucester for a league match . |
| 4 | Redcar take on Ripon in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup and Andy Rogers replaces Jim Butcher at prop , while Mike Donoghue returns to the second row . |
| 5 | And Oxford take on Cambridge in the 119th Varsity Athletics match . |
| 6 | The County Union is looking into the Boyce Hill boy 's absence and Lockwood will wait for the outcome before he names the squad to take on Hertfordshire in the second match in July . |
| 7 | Sunderland caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby believes his side still needs one more win to avoid going to Wembley to take on Liverpool as the only Third Division side to contest an FA Cup final . |
| 8 | He turned down £1.5 million to fight someone even less credible than Foreman in April , a guaranteed £5.5m to take on Bowe for the undisputed crown next summer , an opportunity to win the titles in the ring and the star prize , a chance to fulfil his avowed lifetime ambition . |