Example sentences of "[verb] take on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , however , circumstances have changed somewhat since my first love affair with the States and my fascination has taken on a maturity that matches my years and experiences on the North American continent . |
| 2 | The agreement marks the first time Nato has taken on a mission beyond its borders since the alliance was founded in 1949 . |
| 3 | He has taken on a personality , like those crackpots who claim to have been reincarnated , from another culture . |
| 4 | ACTOR Roy Barraclough has taken on a role that 's right up his street — as Sherlock Holmes ' bumbling sidekick Watson . |
| 5 | Tamati has taken on a lot but life from here should not be dull for Salford 's long-suffering support . |
| 6 | But for the moment , it seems he is n't the luxury most women want to take on a desert island with them . |
| 7 | You know , nobody wants to take on a girl ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then they seem to take on a mind of their own , then they become positively malignant ! ’ |
| 14 | As with Diana 's romance , events began to take on a momentum of their own . |
| 15 | Anyone wishing to take on a franchise can ask the BFA for help and advice : |
| 16 | She might have taken on a job as a waitress for the summer , but she was damned if she was going to let people treat her like a mindless robot because of it . |
| 17 | A property that is not specified takes on a default value . |
| 18 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
| 19 | This was a memorandum that seemed to have taken on a life of its own : now here , now there , now one , now several , now alone , now gone , now lurking . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't afford to take on a loan at this stage . |
| 22 | When knowledge becomes formulated into a science , then it does take on a life of its own , often alien to the human spirit that conceived it . ’ |
| 23 | afford a holiday now , I mean now they 've taken on a mortgage |
| 24 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 25 | Fürst Franz Thun-Hohenstein remembers : ‘ When the enormous picture arrived packed up , my sisters and I were curious to see and touch something which really came from Decin , from Bohemia , which had taken on a kind of dream-like quality for us ; Decin did live on for us , but was unattainable . |
| 26 | My boss knew he had taken on a lesbian when I was appointed . |
| 27 | He had a lot of sympathy for the girl , she had taken on a lot and was doing it well . |
| 28 | The pain had taken on a form , which cried , and dribbled from every orifice . |
| 29 | The ‘ Mouvement du 22 Mars ’ had begun to take on a momentum of its own , as April turned into May . |
| 30 | The contracts which western utilities signed in the 1970s and 1980s to reprocess their nuclear waste have taken on a life of their own . |