Example sentences of "had taken on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They had taken on extra teaching staff . |
| 3 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Consensys had taken on Interactive System Corp and SunSoft Inc refugee Doug Miller as vice president of European sales . |
| 6 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
| 7 | 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 . |