Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If some kind person could send us a copy I have some very keen would-be knitters who would be extremely grateful , not least myself who has taken on the task of teaching them . |
| 2 | All four are , for example , victimised in different ways by the taboo of illegitimacy and the play focuses on Rose , who has been kept from the knowledge that Jackie is her mother by grandmother Margaret who has taken on the maternal role . |
| 3 | ‘ The father may have been violent , the woman might be involved with someone else who has taken on the role of father . |
| 4 | Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits . |
| 5 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 6 | He placed the helmet squarely on the American boy 's head and glanced at Flavia Sherman , who had put on a wide-brimmed sun hat of white felt decorated with coloured ribbons . |
| 7 | I did , however , recently visit a long-established and normally experienced retailer who had taken on a new member of staff who filled a big sales tank with a mixture of large Heteractis and Stoichactis anemone species . |
| 8 | It also demanded a change in the way in which the government was appointed ( the Fifth Congress having given the President the power to appoint ministers ) and a new Prime Minister in place of Yeltsin , who had taken on the post himself in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] . |
| 9 | It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) . |