Example sentences of "he [vb past] take on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 2 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 3 | The Prince of Wales is president of my organisation , Scottish Business in the Community , and ever since he agreed to take on that role he as dedicated a large amount of time to helping us , and in turn , helping communities , not because it 's it 's fashionable because he really believes in it and he wants to do hard work on our behalf and on the countrys ' behalf . |
| 4 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 5 | He expected to take on at least another four by September and more once the village was fully operational . |
| 6 | At that time I did n't pause to wonder if he 'd realized exactly what he 'd taken on when he first became involved with Nigel 's funeral arrangements ; I did later , and often , with deep and loving gratitude . |
| 7 | He found he had taken on more than he bargained for . |
| 8 | With his wife , he had taken on a ready-made family for , although a Catholic , she was divorced , with two lolloping sons . |
| 9 | My boss knew he had taken on a lesbian when I was appointed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 12 | Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time . |
| 13 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 14 | After a long period of depression , and a short period of training , he had taken on a new career — one which also demanded dexterity with the hands : that of a mortician . |
| 15 | His career as a virtuoso dancer came to an end in the 1960s , when he suffered an injury , but he continued to take on character parts , notably as the widow Simone in Ashton 's Fille , and remained with the company until 1989 . |
| 16 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 17 | He wanted to take on the Glamorgan job again , whenever Butcher may decide to retire , and he was pleased to be thought a contender to take England to India if , as is expected , Graham Gooch opts out . |