Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor is obviously full of anticipation as he embarks on the most important year since taking on the England job . |
| 2 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 3 | He left no natural successor to take on the Nehru mantle . |
| 4 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 5 | Angelica switched on the Cona machine and Adele brought an extra chair . |
| 6 | — ITV plans to take on the BBC in the lunchtime ratings battle with a new soap set in a North-East seaside community . |
| 7 | There would be no one to carry on the Drennan name , no one to inherit his land . |
| 8 | Names like Danny Blanchflower and Christy Ring , shouts of ‘ Up Down ’ and ‘ C'm on the Dube ’ crowded into her mind from the dinner tables of her childhood . |
| 9 | John Bowley , or Bowyer , a shot maker who took on the Hartfield steel forge in 1525 , might have been related to either Valentine or Nicholas Bowyer ( land £2 and £3 respectively ) . |
| 10 | I put my conversations with Lou and Brenda from my mind , at least for the time being , and had switched on the WP and was enjoying the little moans and buzzes of its warming up , when there was a mighty banging on the door and there stood Hugo . |
| 11 | Table Tennis Douglas takes on the Preans . |
| 12 | The sixth came after young Sarah Wade sneaked in to take on the Stockton defence in style . |
| 13 | He wanted to take on the Glamorgan job again , whenever Butcher may decide to retire , and he was pleased to be thought a contender to take England to India if , as is expected , Graham Gooch opts out . |
| 14 | These problems are compounded by the weight of motor traffic — estimated at seven million vehicles per year — carried on the Alps ' narrow roads , which is exacerbating tree die-back due to acid rain . |
| 15 | They demanded that no action be taken on the SED-PDS proposal , involving creation of a new Office for the Protection of the Constitution , until after the general election . |
| 16 | The French , for their part , are promoting the idea of a ‘ Euro-champion ’ to take on the US and Japanese world leaders . |
| 17 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 18 | His constant flow of crosses and ability to take on the Southampton defence created sufficient openings for United to have transformed their domination into goals . |
| 19 | Bring on the Pimm 's because Paul Weller is back . |
| 20 | Bring on the Pimm 's and let's have a sing-song around the old Hammond because Paul Weller is back . |
| 21 | Later on , the winners were joined by top pop group , Londonbeat , who sang their latest single , 'You bring on the Sun' . |
| 22 | Nick Hornby ( ‘ Mine is the generation that was terrified of the Daleks and fell in love with Valerie Singleton ’ ) carried on the Sunday Times sniping last week : ‘ It could well be that my generation is about to burst into spectacular , awe-inspiring literary life ; perhaps this year we will be reading scores of novels as dazzling as London Fields or A History of the World in 10½ Chapters , all written by men and women born after Elvis ’ first number one . |
| 23 | The Olympic 100 metres champion has signed a new six-figure deal to head Lucozade 's TV campaigns and has been asked to do everything from race a greyhound to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights . |
| 24 | The Swindon Robins are facing Black Thursday next week when they take on the Oxford Cheetahs at Blunsdon . |
| 25 | Truman 's new secretary of state , James F. Byrnes , was at first serenely confident that he could carry on the Roosevelt approach to Stalin with the American nuclear monopoly in reserve in his " hip pocket " , and with no automatic supporting role for the British . |
| 26 | Taking on the Runcorn betting shop cashier is Charlton 's Steve Gritt who gets a 20-metre start . |
| 27 | Scrum-half Ant Strachan ( centre ) and flanker Paul Henderson ( left ) take on the Ireland defence , while John Kirwan — one of the few World Cup players to prosper under Mains ' regime — looks to support . |
| 28 | The first was only 18 months ago when we took on the New Zealand Emerging Players XI . |
| 29 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 30 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |