Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 2 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 3 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 4 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
| 5 | He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it . |
| 6 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 7 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |