Example sentences of "[pers pn] take on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 2 | The Ruffians ' ( 4th XI ) season drew to a close on Saturday when they took on the third team 's opposition at Aldershot . |
| 3 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 4 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 5 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 6 | Phil 's first big break in showbiz was when , as a child actor , he took on the challenging role of Arthur Dodger in Charles Dickens ' classical-rock musical ‘ Camelot ’ where he learned all he knows re : homelessness … |
| 7 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 8 | But — he took on the big job . |
| 9 | Gain says the acquisition positions it to take on the full scope of designing , building and delivering large-scale multimedia systems . |