Example sentences of "[vb past] take on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she spoke the pens of the newspaper reporters seemed to take on a frantic life of their own , skipping across the lines of their notebooks . |
| 2 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 3 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 4 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 5 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 6 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 7 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 8 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 9 | However , she could be made to leave with a month 's notice if another licensee agreed to take on a 20-year lease there . |
| 10 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 11 | His pale cheeks had taken on a ruddy glow . |
| 12 | I did , however , recently visit a long-established and normally experienced retailer who had taken on a new member of staff who filled a big sales tank with a mixture of large Heteractis and Stoichactis anemone species . |
| 13 | His life had taken on a new dimension . |
| 14 | Within two weeks we were encouraging our readers to lobby their MPs concerning the restrictive Night Assemblies Bill , Robert Tripp was regaling us with tales of groupies and interviews had taken on a new air of contention , seriousness and madness . |
| 15 | Was it possible that her sister had taken on a new maid for the Fanshawes ' flat and not said anything about it ? |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the paper had taken on a new cub reporter in the person of Matthew Smith , a tall gangling young man who was to go far in his chosen field . |
| 17 | The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] . |
| 18 | After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician . |
| 19 | Ralph Pike had taken on a strange rigidity . |
| 20 | Fur trading had a more insidious ecological impact , for what the indigenous people had taken on a small scale for subsistence was now demanded on a large scale for sale in the south . |
| 21 | Labour had taken on a flagging government in the midst of the longest recession since the last world war . |
| 22 | George 's voice had taken on a harsh inflection . |
| 23 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 24 | The Trunchbull was in such a rage that her face had taken on a boiled colour and little flecks of froth were gathering at the corners of her mouth . |
| 25 | Somehow , since being at Vetch Street , working so hard , and living a life so different from her old one , many events in her past had taken on a different colour . |
| 26 | But the Collector , always inclined to be moody and difficult , had taken on a persecuted look again . |
| 27 | With his wife , he had taken on a ready-made family for , although a Catholic , she was divorced , with two lolloping sons . |
| 28 | Everything around him had taken on a rosy hue and he felt excitement in his guts . |
| 29 | Already the forest had taken on a menacing gloom . |
| 30 | The other girl 's voice had taken on a steely edge . |