Sentence examples for took on at from inspiring English sources

There was Mr. Domingo, at 60, still singing a punishing German dramatic tenor role he first took on at 50, a role that during his early career no one predicted he would even consider.

Hakim El Karoui, a partner at Roland Berger strategy consultants, whom Zinsou took on at Rothschilds, thinks "it was predestined".

Ren?Fleming will sing Desdemona, a role she first took on at the Met more than a decade ago.

The last genre it took on at the very end was science fiction, which was shocking and quite silly too.

The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.

He took on, at least in name, a whole Afro-American cultural movement: embodied by musicians like Sun Ra, George Clinton and Drexciya.

I was one of three enterprise fellows taken on at that time.

By then Richard Freeman had been taken on at BC [Dr Palfreeman had resigned in spring of 2010].

After a journey of nearly 700 miles, she was taken on at Foxconn.

Fourteen were taken on at that time, and 10 of them worked until completing their four months in October.

Exceptionally for a Palestinian from Gaza, he had been taken on at two Israeli hospitals, where he made Israeli friends.