Example sentences of "take it on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good caddies have good temperaments. just watch Ian Wright getting a lambasting from Seve Ballesteros and see if Ian ever answers back , or , indeed , reacts in any way other than to quietly stand and take it on the chin , metaphorically speaking of course . |
| 2 | Never mind , I 'm sure he 'll take it on the chin . |
| 3 | One of them is amazing but I do n't take it on the road with me ; I leave it at home . |
| 4 | And if you do find you still love this girl , I 'll take it on the chin , as Judd would say . |
| 5 | I mean I , my sister used to have one and she said you could take it on the motorway and it 'll just keep up a , a very good speed still with a noisy engines and then it just kept going and going and going . |
| 6 | Few of his peers scoffed , but even fewer followed his example of actually taking it on the course . |
| 7 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 8 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 9 | So John 's now taking it on the basis that he takes budget with it so |
| 10 | He took it on the chin . |
| 11 | Ira Sanchez offered a bet and the bookie took it on the nod . |
| 12 | Confronted with Donna 's exuberant wardrobe , she realized there were only two courses open to her : either she took it on the chin ( ‘ straight spine , old girl , ’ ) , or she slunk away and refused to answer the phone when Donna called to see why she had n't been met . |
| 13 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 14 | They took it on the terrace where there was more air and a slight breeze ruffled Jane Postlethwaite 's sleeves . |
| 15 | I took it on the lamp . |
| 16 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 17 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 18 | Just take it on the pointed chin . |
| 19 | We take it on the nose through earnings . ’ |
| 20 | I have one month when I take it on the dot , every day , I then forget , and I think , oh God I 'm pregnant . |
| 21 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 22 | ‘ One of our great strengths is our ability to take it on the chin and come out fighting . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That 's the whole point — regardless , Miss Everett , that both you and I know that you 're never going to marry him anyway , Travis , who cares deeply for his family , ’ as you do , Leith could well have inserted , ‘ is only going to take it on the chin and let you go , by learning that the person you do love is a member of his family , who loves you in return . ’ |
| 24 | Schofield has already had cause to caution Montgomerie — in 1991 — and yesterday he said : ‘ He is a fine golfer and is clearly going to be a major figure in the game for as long as he remains active in it , but he has to be able to take it on the chin . |