Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] on 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 wished that he could as easily delete the memory of what had followed after she had switched on the overhead light . |
| 3 | There 's a pier here which we 've put on the new map erm and this is south promenade . |
| 4 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 5 | They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants . |
| 6 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ) . |
| 9 | But the issue of Somerset House , which he has put on the political agenda , will not fade . |
| 10 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |