Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Digital Equipment 's attempt to take on the Intel Pentium chip . |
| 2 | as if life at Westminster were not strain enough , the House of Lords took on the Commons in a tug o' war contest this week . |
| 3 | Later on , the winners were joined by top pop group , Londonbeat , who sang their latest single , 'You bring on the Sun' . |
| 4 | The Olympic 100 metres champion has signed a new six-figure deal to head Lucozade 's TV campaigns and has been asked to do everything from race a greyhound to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights . |
| 5 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 6 | This month Liz turns her attention to the pattern variation switches on the Silver Reed electronic machines . |
| 7 | Angelica switched on the Cona machine and Adele brought an extra chair . |
| 8 | He left no natural successor to take on the Nehru mantle . |
| 9 | Table Tennis Douglas takes on the Preans . |
| 10 | His constant flow of crosses and ability to take on the Southampton defence created sufficient openings for United to have transformed their domination into goals . |
| 11 | At an impromptu Press conference , unionist councillors accused Secretary of State Peter Brooke of not having the guts to take on the IRA . |
| 12 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 13 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 14 | The Betts take on the Piggotts in the other semi-final . |