Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 2 | Last year Rover took on 30 apprentices at Swindon and this year the figure will be 64 . |
| 3 | Similar soviets had emerged in other cities earlier in the year , but that of St Petersburg took on unique importance . |
| 4 | The accusation of hostility to Israel took on new meaning in November 1967 , when de Gaulle made comments about the characteristics of the Jewish people that were interpreted as anti-Semitic . |
| 5 | In their last fixture before Henley at Marlow Regatta , St Edwards took on another Oxfordshire school Radley College , and were shocked to loose by just a few feet . |
| 6 | Shamir took on temporary responsibility for all the vacant portfolios . |
| 7 | Nine months after start-up Mr Chambers took on another consultant . |
| 8 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 9 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 10 | Far from fading away , public interest in BCCI took on new life on May 24th . |