Example sentences of "who have [vb pp] on the " 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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ] . |
6 | 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 ) . |