Example sentences of "taking [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 2 | The question at the time , in May 1941 , when the Vietminh was founded and Ho was talking bravely about taking on the combined French and Japanese armies in Vietnam was , of course , anachronistic : the two principal Allied powers had not yet entered the war . |
| 3 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 4 | Naval fears of the financial burden of taking over the Nuclear Deterrent and its effect on the size and shape of the Fleet were allayed by the unification of the |
| 5 | However , an outside developer has expressed a serious interest in taking over the A-listed building and running it as both as a commercial mill and as a tourist attraction . |
| 6 | For Islington this meant that in addition to taking over the day-to-day running and management of the pre-school , school and adult educational facilities in its area , the borough had to provide resources in areas previously funded by ILEA , London-wide . |
| 7 | The test for this comes when someone , or some group , is offered a pay rise ( in real terms ) and the choice either of working the same number of hours and taking home the extra money or of maintaining their real income but reducing the hours worked . |
| 8 | She observes that by taking out the old fuse and putting a new one in she has caused the iron to work again . |
| 9 | Success came overnight in neither case ; but a slow and steady improvement did take place , hauled back on to the right track at intervals by taking out the original contract and referring yet again to the agreed terms . |
| 10 | I abandoned the idea altogether of taking either the sovereign state or that vague concept , the national society , as the unit of analysis . |