Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] on the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 2 | We will want to be able to build high capacity systems so going to take on the class of applications that have traditionally been associated with a mainframe . |
| 3 | But no European country , not even Britain , is going to take on the burden of a post-imperial military presence in the Persian Gulf . |
| 4 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
| 5 | In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services . |
| 6 | Popular puppet theatre is helping to take on the struggle against AIDS across southern Africa . |
| 7 | There is enough to do without trying to take on the role of quality controller standing by the conveyor belt of education , rejecting two out of three products as sub-standard . |