Example sentences of "would [vb infin] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd take on all comers , especially when I was broke . |
| 2 | Strange , she 'd think , the way life could sometimes go — how you 'd take on one humiliation simply in order to avoid another , and reckon yourself ahead . |
| 3 | From that date a National Labour Unity Committee was to organize the campaign within the Labour Party , while the Communists and the ILP would carry on separate agitations on their own . |
| 4 | He would start before breakfast and would carry on all day . ’ |
| 5 | My personal feeling is that it would be a brave student indeed who would take on such a wide-ranging and non-traditional approach to literary studies without at least the understanding of tutors , and preferably with their co-operation and guidance . |
| 6 | IF EVERY QUALIFIED TEACHER WOULD TAKE ON ONE NEW CLASS , ALL OUR TROUBLES WOULD BE OVER ! |
| 7 | It was suggested that cultural differences would gradually be eroded also and that working class people would take on bourgeois , or middle class , lifestyles . |
| 8 | Activities associated with adjusting income/expenditure would take on greater importance , and would be related to defined shortfalls in resource needs . |
| 9 | Any lumberjack who was feeling sufficiently ill-disposed towards his fellow drinking companions could place on his shoulder a small chip of wood to indicate he would take on any man who cared to flick it off . |
| 10 | An I such a glutton for punishment that I would take on romantic love rather than follow Germaine Greer 's example and embrace ‘ hagdom ’ , as she recommends in her new book The Change ( Hamish Hamilton , £16.99 ) , and with it , a loveless old age ? |
| 11 | You would take on some responsibility immediately for particular areas and additional responsibilities are available to those with the ability and enthusiasm to take them on . |
| 12 | Jamieson ( 1986 ) in her study of working-class mothers and daughters in urban Scotland in roughly the same period , found that young adult women living in the parental home would take on domestic work to assist their mothers routinely and extensively , in a way not replicated by their male counterparts . |
| 13 | One company , however , had several informal contacts in universities and these contacts would pass on relevant papers and reports . |
| 14 | And we would pass on those benefits to the customer . |
| 15 | The big fear was that they would pass on potentially-harmful genes to other E . |