Example sentences of "[pron] have take on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I have taken on this job ( and for my sins ! ) . |
| 2 | Contact has also been made with the Home Affairs Select Committee which has taken on new responsibilities of interest to the Bar , including legal aid . |
| 3 | Tail whisking is one of the movements which has taken on expressive value , becoming emancipated from its original function of removing flies : horses whisk their tails at anything they want to remove from their vicinity , such as other horses , inept grooms or riders , or even irritating conditions such as being confined or tied up . |
| 4 | The village Neighbourhood Watch scheme is now fully operational , thanks to Clifford Watts who has taken on overall responsibility . |
| 5 | When not being a mother or supportive wife , she has taken on numerous appointments in areas that interest her . |
| 6 | The additional possibility that , having acquired Libyan nationality , they could take partnership with their employers , would have frustrated the intention of at least one employer who had taken on foreign labour to protect his enterprise from socialism . |
| 7 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
| 8 | At the centre there are a handful who hold important roles at the Cliburn , and those who always have the calm look of those who have taken on difficult jobs and remain , despite myriad new crises , absolutely in control : Susan Tilley , chairman of the board of the Van Cliburn Foundation ; Mildred Fender , the social chairman for this year 's competition ; Richard Rodzinski , director of the foundation ; and John Giordano , chairman of the jury . |
| 9 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 10 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 11 | Yeah they 've taken on extra staff |
| 12 | They had taken on extra teaching staff . |
| 13 | As a result , he has taken on more staff in the region . |
| 14 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 15 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |