Example sentences of "[verb] on the whole " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she can fight off that medication , she 'll take on the whole world . ’ |
| 2 | We ca n't take on the whole French colonial army — we must escape . |
| 3 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 4 | It looked as if he was taking on the whole KGB . |
| 5 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 6 | Everyone put on the whole uniform including the grey raincoat on top , and I put on my raincoat also , I packed Tommy 's spare garments and my own clothes into the holdall , and was ready . |
| 7 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |