Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 2 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
| 3 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 4 | Finnish Foreign Minister Pertti Salolainen , leading the EFTA side since Finland had taken on the rotating EFTA chairmanship on July 1 , confirmed on July 30 that the talks would restart in September . |
| 5 | The weight his stepfather had put on the young man 's shoulders had made David seem much older than his twenty-eight years . |
| 6 | This should do much to ease the burden the arms race had put on the Soviet economy . |
| 7 | He wished that he could as easily delete the memory of what had followed after she had switched on the overhead light . |