Example sentences of "taken on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the debt was taken on to pay for Standa , a supermarket chain , and the Mondadori publishing empire . |
| 2 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 3 | The train would be allowed to cross the border if there was an absolute assurance that the children would be taken on to Britain . |
| 4 | Out of 12,000 mostly unskilled workers taken on to staff the park , of which two thirds have been French and the rest from abroad , as many as 4,000 are thought to have quit in the last few months , prompting worries about mounting costs on the operators ' training and employment budgets . |
| 5 | ‘ These disposals will break the back of our £200m bridging finance , taken on to fund the bid , ’ said Mr McErlain . |
| 6 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 7 | Although total revenue was steady at £6.4m , interest on borrowings taken on to switch into American , Japanese and Australian bonds cut pre-tax earnings from £4.23m to £3.2m and earnings per share from 2.57p to 1.95p . |
| 8 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |
| 9 | Indeed , apart from workers in holiday camps who , because they are taken on for periods expected to be in excess of 13 weeks , qualify for statutory sickness pay , most seasonal workers are not entitled to any income replacement in case of absence . |
| 10 | These trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year . |
| 11 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 12 | You are also far less likely to be taken on for training . |
| 13 | One hundred and fifty temporary workers are being taken on at Europe 's biggest ice cream factory Birds Eye Walls in Gloucester to cope with increased demand . |
| 14 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |
| 15 | On the one hand he can support his understanding of the institutional expectations by simply repeating those inculcated practices he has learned as a neophyte from the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , which are interminably repeated ‘ at the charge room desk ’ or ‘ taken on at Nellie 's knee ’ . |
| 16 | but how do you I mean do you have to be taken on as officers of the R A F |
| 17 | Those who succeed are taken on as business management trainees . |
| 18 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 19 | Taken on around Whitsuntide , such men were provided with a cottage for the period of the hire , and in return were expected to supply from their own meagre resources a ‘ bondager ’ — a woman who would perform field-work or any other menial farm duty required of her . |
| 20 | The postman was taken on in September 1990 and resigned recently . |
| 21 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 22 | These and their white peers were taken on in times of expansion . |
| 23 | It is new but it does not seem as yet to have taken on in terms of traffic . |
| 24 | ‘ You see all these Italian and French drivers being taken on in Formula One because their country 's industries back them . |
| 25 | Students also provide a substantial share of the summer staff taken on by holiday camps , at least for that part of the season which coincides with college vacations . |
| 26 | The Lycée was to hold this self-determined spirit for only two years then he was taken on by Balmain , at that time one of the grandest of French designers . |
| 27 | In addition , two colleagues in naval intelligence had recently been taken on by ICI to be trained as work study officers , and spoke enthusiastically to me of how they were treated by the company . |
| 28 | But , in fact , in the same way as the very ambitious career woman of today risks becoming detached from her home surroundings , so it must have been extremely difficult in the past for upper-class ladies , running homes that were full of servants , to put personal qualities into the home when all the physical work was taken on by others . |
| 29 | If our patients have problems we can not cope with , we usually say so ; we may then simply advise going elsewhere , or we may act as advocates to ensure that the issues are properly taken on by others . |
| 30 | Brian Whitaker , who had worked on the Wapping Post and the Hayling dummy , had applied for the job of editor and , although he had not been interviewed , was taken on by Sutton as his deputy . |