Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new aqueduct was necessary to allow ships to pass on the new Manchester Ship Canal . |
| 2 | Fisher , who had gone to Melbourne briefly in 1897 with high hopes of being selected for Australia , was determined to see Otago cricket prosper , and convinced the local authorities that Crawford would be the type of coach who could bring on the young Otago players . |
| 3 | Switzerland stood down from taking on the rotating EFTA presidency in the first six months of 1993 , taking up instead the vice-presidency ( in charge of negotiations with third countries , including eastern Europe ) ; the presidency passed instead to Sweden . |
| 4 | It looked as if he was taking on the whole KGB . |
| 5 | Released worldwide on all formats on November 24 ( Sonic Tuesday , apparently ) , once again it sees the animal libber hedgehog taking on the evil Dr Robotnik through a series of worlds ( The Mystic Cave , The Toxic Plant Zone etc ) . |
| 6 | Dalglish , whose side visit Southampton tomorrowsun , got his priorities right when he took on the former Luton and Wimbledon boss as his right-hand man soon after taking office just over a year ago . |
| 7 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 8 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 9 | Nothing annoyed Viola Machin more , as a general rule , than Hilda putting on the broad Lancashire . |
| 10 | Finnish Foreign Minister Pertti Salolainen , leading the EFTA side since Finland had taken on the rotating EFTA chairmanship on July 1 , confirmed on July 30 that the talks would restart in September . |
| 11 | This Sunday the Oxford Saints take on the Delonghi Knights from Kent in the National League play offs . |
| 12 | At the tender age of 23 Harry strolled out at Feethams to take on the legendary West Indian all-rounder Learie Constantine . |
| 13 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |