Example sentences of "[vb past] take on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schladming , just to the east , which tried to take on the World Cup commitment , has suffered similarly . |
| 2 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 3 | Christina warmed to her and was glad for the trouble she 'd taken on the Morris 's account . |
| 4 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 5 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 6 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 7 | Although a late developer , it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion . |
| 8 | As August progressed , Arafat began to take on the role of Saddam 's chief ally . |
| 9 | The motorway slashed on through fields and villages without regard for either , and after a while the villages flowed together and became towns , and the towns joined and merged to take on the appearance of a city . |
| 10 | At the same time , we will be paying special attention to the acquisition of management skills , providing specific training courses to develop in our trainees the confidence and resourcefulness needed to take on the responsibilities of running a busy section . |
| 11 | All but a handful of booksellers agreed to sign a written undertaking not to sell the book , but Peter Marsh , 45 , who owns Bilbo 's in Bath , decided to take on the Government . |
| 12 | She had been discovered as a fourteen-year-old Moscow prostitute when she decided to take on the whole of a KGB barrackroom who were in need of relief . |
| 13 | For the recording of his The Manson Family , Moran decided to take on the role of Charlie himself , his unsettling experience with the Psychological Club being , perhaps , influential to his chilling performance . |
| 14 | On Oct. 3 four of the eight members of the Collective State Presidency ( representing the republics of Serbia and Montenegro , and the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo within Serbia ) voted to take on the powers of the Yugoslav Assembly because they were " in conditions of an immediate danger of war " . |
| 15 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 16 | More than 1,600 names — the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims — lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd 's syndicates in 1982 . |
| 17 | IN A move which highlights the hard times facing the City , more than 200 institutions yesterday agreed to take on the risk of underwriting the £5.3billion water sell-off at commission rates worth a total of just £33million . |
| 18 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 19 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 20 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 21 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 22 | The London buses by this time had taken on the look of the more modern style and were being driven by diesel engines , also they were capable of carrying as many as fifty-six passengers . |
| 23 | Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion . |
| 24 | Sarah 's voice had taken on the tone of an interrogation . |
| 25 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |
| 26 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 27 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 28 | Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls . |
| 29 | It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) . |
| 30 | No-one cared how long we had taken on the route . |