Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " 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 | On the 1st March she took on wider responsibilities as Head of Scripture Union 's Development and Communication Department . |
| 7 | It came quite late : Nilsson was 40 when she took on this Minnie . |
| 8 | I admired the way she took on this part of the world and conquered it . ’ |
| 9 | She took on another personality and a new role as an outlaw . |
| 10 | I say she brought on that heart attack ! ’ |
| 11 | She kept on promising wheat , sari , ration card . |
| 12 | The UFC 's subsequent system rewarded those who took on extra students cheaply . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Everything hung on this jump if the RAF were to stand much chance in the rest of the competition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So it was again a great disappointment for me but er , we carried on this struggle . |
| 18 | Finally they took on one opponent too many , receiving a resounding defeat at the hands of the Mamluks at Ain Jallud in 1260 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even now , he hung on seven weeks more . |
| 22 | But the trouble he took on each occasion was the same . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He 's clever enough , and brave in spite of all I 've said — in that last raid he took on four men to save Ewan Beg 's life . |
| 25 | Though this point of view is not a new one , it took on increased importance in 1975 when the Labour government obtained a loan from the International Monetary Fund which was conditional upon a reduction of the level of public expenditure . |
| 26 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |
| 27 | It had become a sort of one-off adventurer and then after '79 it took on another role again . |
| 28 | The Noble Viscount , Lord Whitelaw put it I thought extremely well , extremely persuasively , when he spoke on second reading on this question , not of the Chairman , but of the five Home Office nominees . |
| 29 | I 've got nothing other , I do n't know whether anybody 's aware of what went on last Wednesday and probably that , I mean there could have been there was a , sort of a , a cable that , a mains cable that heated up and started smoking and er , we had to deal with that . |