Example sentences of "[vb past] to take on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she spoke the pens of the newspaper reporters seemed to take on a frantic life of their own , skipping across the lines of their notebooks . |
| 2 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 3 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 4 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 5 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 6 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 7 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 8 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 9 | However , she could be made to leave with a month 's notice if another licensee agreed to take on a 20-year lease there . |
| 10 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 11 | 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 . |