Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 2 | The alarm in Leeming 's face was obvious ; the confusion that followed brought on another bout of coughing . |
| 3 | You see , Miss Williams — or should I make that Fran , so that I can get used to calling you that ? — I could n't very well tell the police what had gone on last night , so I improvised . |
| 4 | With the advent of the Youth Training Scheme ( started in 1983 ) one or two of the dairy farmers had taken on 16 year olds for the one year of the Scheme to lessen their own work load . |
| 5 | They had taken on extra teaching staff . |
| 6 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 7 | The additional possibility that , having acquired Libyan nationality , they could take partnership with their employers , would have frustrated the intention of at least one employer who had taken on foreign labour to protect his enterprise from socialism . |
| 8 | Consensys had taken on Interactive System Corp and SunSoft Inc refugee Doug Miller as vice president of European sales . |
| 9 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
| 10 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |