Example sentences of "he [verb] to take [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 2 | One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth . |
| 3 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 4 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 5 | There 's , we , we 've been struggling and trying to do ourselves and all we have to do is to allow Christ to come in to our lives , because he died to take away the sin , he dealt with the route cause of it , Christ in you , the hope of glory . |
| 6 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 7 | Elsham signalbox is situated in a very remote part of the Lincolnshire countryside and thus evokes more strange happenings that baffled John Daubney when he had to take over the box as a relief signalman . |
| 8 | He had to take out the man furthest from him first , the man least prepared . |
| 9 | Fred will feel the benefit when he comes to take over the business . ’ |