Example sentences of "i [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 2 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 3 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 4 | As I said on second reading , this House is the ultimate guardian of the constitutional liberties of the British people . |
| 5 | He misses a risky plant , I take on some banana , and win on the pink . |