Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |
| 2 | Today Wales B take on the shaken Aussies in Cardiff — and Davies does n't rule out another shock Welsh win . |
| 3 | No one carried on the cheesemaking tradition in our family , although West Park Farm is still owned by the Birketts , run as a beef farm by my sister-in-law and her young son . |
| 4 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 5 | ‘ Scalpel ! ’ , then , takes on the indexical value in this context of ‘ Pass me that particular scalpel ’ . |
| 6 | Hick at No. 3 is encouragement to the bowlers and deflation for his fellow-batsmen : hence the pressure put on the middle order in the past two years . |
| 7 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 8 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 9 | In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time . |
| 10 | Appeared in 700 Carry Ons , including Carry On Naughty Nurses , Carry On More Naughty Nurses , Carry On The Same Character In Everything Else . |
| 11 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 12 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |