Example sentences of "to take on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , nobody wants to take on a girl ! |
| 2 | But for the moment , it seems he is n't the luxury most women want to take on a desert island with them . |
| 3 | Yet he would spend hours pleading with a reluctant employer to take on a boy he knew needed desperately to work . |
| 4 | He revealed to the Daily Post recently that he was ready and willing to take on a player-manager 's role . |
| 5 | The loose skin of Vologsky 's cheeks and lower chin quivered under the increasing pull of the G-force and his entire body seemed to take on a couple of stone in extra weight . |
| 6 | The combination of a broad industrial experience and a close understanding of how the typical mineworker views life gave him the confidence to take on a responsibility which a less courageous man might well have ducked . |
| 7 | You are , perhaps , the captain of a pirate ship , proposing to take on a cargo of slaves because it 's easy money . |
| 8 | Characteristic of his style is his intensely naturalistic carving of man and nature ; the carved drapery folds seem to take on a life of their own . |
| 9 | Although strongly influenced by Dicey , the tradition comes to take on a life of its own . |
| 10 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 11 | However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district . |
| 12 | Then they seem to take on a mind of their own , then they become positively malignant ! ’ |
| 13 | The Acts also provide for a quota scheme , which makes it compulsory for every employer of more than twenty people to take on a quota of at least 3 per cent registered disabled , although few firms adhere to this scheme and monitoring is poor . |
| 14 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps this is because they really are wanting or perhaps it is because the professional refuses to take on a role that the parents want but that he or she thinks unsuitable . |
| 16 | To make a speech , propose a toast , or write a manifesto is to take on a role and also to impose a role on the receivers . |
| 17 | From there it is a comparatively small step for you to take on a role in a piece of forum theatre , and then on to working in role with the whole class . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't afford to take on a loan at this stage . |
| 19 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
| 20 | But more importantly , as far as Roddick is concerned , each franchised outlet is required to take on a community project in its area , which she believes gives the young women in the organisation additional status and helps them to realise that everybody has the ability to change the world for the better . |
| 21 | As with Diana 's romance , events began to take on a momentum of their own . |
| 22 | The ‘ Mouvement du 22 Mars ’ had begun to take on a momentum of its own , as April turned into May . |
| 23 | Lists inventory of furniture in a Haunted House inventory of equipment to take on a journey/expedition menus for the King 's celebratory banquet or a friend 's birthday party shopping list for ingredients for a cake shopping list for Christmas presents census returns — who lives here , what do they do ? |
| 24 | A lone mercenary thinks he 's tough enough to take on a bunch of macho gun-toting enemy soldiers ( who are probably so 'ard they eat shredded wheat , box and all , for brekky ) . |
| 25 | For me this has been a very exciting year in which to take on a directorship of the department . |
| 26 | Two more world champions are in action tonight ; Swindon 's Bob Anderson lines up with John Lowe at the Super Marine Club in South Marston to take on a handful of local challengers who make up the best in the west . |
| 27 | USAFM hope also to take on a series of former Desert Storm aircraft in the wake of recent retirements . |
| 28 | Anyone wishing to take on a franchise can ask the BFA for help and advice : |
| 29 | Yeah the board in it 's wisdom looking at the financial situation decided to take on a policy which actually prohibited the use of the studio theatre by professional companies and I think that 's reduced the actual use of that facility . |
| 30 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |