Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 2 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 3 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 4 | As I said on second reading , this House is the ultimate guardian of the constitutional liberties of the British people . |
| 5 | The primitive democratic organization which took on these duties , the village commune , may have afforded some consolation to the peasantry , and undoubtedly fostered something of a collectivist mentality . |
| 6 | She switched on all the lights and the room sprang into familiar life . |
| 7 | She took on two alternating roles here , working for six-month periods as Acquisitions Librarian and as Serials Librarian , alternating with our other Assistant Librarian . |
| 8 | On the 1st March she took on wider responsibilities as Head of Scripture Union 's Development and Communication Department . |
| 9 | I admired the way she took on this part of the world and conquered it . ’ |
| 10 | It came quite late : Nilsson was 40 when she took on this Minnie . |
| 11 | She took on another personality and a new role as an outlaw . |
| 12 | I say she brought on that heart attack ! ’ |
| 13 | She kept on promising wheat , sari , ration card . |
| 14 | The UFC 's subsequent system rewarded those who took on extra students cheaply . |
| 15 | Viscount Knebworth notes an early colour line drawn by the world heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan who took on white challengers but refused to fight Jackson ( no date , p.56 ) . |
| 16 | The views of people who had previously looked after those who died sometimes reflected their gratitude and admiration for the people who took on this task . |
| 17 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 18 | Everything hung on this final event of the year . |
| 19 | Everything hung on this jump if the RAF were to stand much chance in the rest of the competition . |
| 20 | Noel explains why the number is so small : ‘ When we took on this responsibility it was made clear that there were to be no extra funds specifically for underwater archaeology . |
| 21 | So it was again a great disappointment for me but er , we carried on this struggle . |
| 22 | Finally they took on one opponent too many , receiving a resounding defeat at the hands of the Mamluks at Ain Jallud in 1260 . |
| 23 | When Old Testament psalms such as this one were sung in the New Testament church , they took on new meaning , although the old promises were still there , ready to be fulfilled in the lives of the worshippers . |
| 24 | Sometimes after their formal prayers , which were said a minimum of five times a day , they continued to sit with their feet in front of them while they carried on long conversations with God . |
| 25 | Even now , he hung on seven weeks more . |
| 26 | He switched on all the lights downstairs and put the kettle on to boil . |
| 27 | Where others might have been satisfied just to become editor of The Times , he took on one public job after another . |
| 28 | But the trouble he took on each occasion was the same . |
| 29 | As war developed he took on many treasurerships for the army and Parliament , becoming one of the treasurers for war in 1645 as well as a commissioner for the customs in 1643 . |
| 30 | There was never owt to be done with Jake when he took on that wild-eyed look . ’ |