Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] take [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |
| 2 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 3 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 4 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 5 | Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left . |