Example sentences of "taken on to [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ These disposals will break the back of our £200m bridging finance , taken on to fund the bid , ’ said Mr McErlain . |
| 4 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |