Sentence examples for took on him from inspiring English sources

The testing of Robinson never ends, but the toll that self-suppression took on him — he died at fifty-three — is not something the movie explores.

Instead, he said all the right things on Wednesday — about joining an organization already loaded with talent, about the toll that losing took on him in Cleveland, about how he was eager to meet with coaches.

Zweig lived in New York for a while, and Prochnik movingly documents the toll that the author's peculiar prominence among the Jewish émigré community took on him, especially at a time when millions of Jews who remained in Europe were dying.

Isolated from many of his friends and family and often moving from residence to residence, he describes the toll this way of life took on him: As he crouched there, listening to Michael try to get rid of the man as quickly as possible, he felt a deep sense of shame.

And yet, we were ignorant of the immense toll the war took on him.

He knows the mental toll it took on him to maintain his grip on the event from 1967 to 1972, the last five years of his competitive career.

I had as much hold as I dare take on him".

With a brutal honesty, he succumbs to the toll his addiction is taking on him.

If any one slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold".

If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold".

I asked him about the emotional toll I assumed this must take on him, but Tanveer was sanguine.