Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] take [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I enjoy taking on the big battalions , ’ he says . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've taken over a local building firm which has unfortunately gone belly-up , ’ Vitor told her , ‘ and included among their assets is a plot of a sizeable number of acres which encompasses your property . ’ |
| 4 | I 've taken over the last few months when we 've done our sales training here , talking to certainly on advanced sales skills courses and so on , I 've tried to bring an air of realism to their world . |
| 5 | You seem to take up an awful lot of energy and time . |
| 6 | If you decide to take out a personal pension , what are the costs involved in commissions to advisers as well as the costs and expenses of the pension provider ? |
| 7 | However , if you do take out a foreign currency loan , make certain that it is possible to switch back into sterling at least once , and at short notice without incurring heavy charges , otherwise you are very exposed . |
| 8 | Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits . |
| 9 | ‘ You have taken on a great responsibility , ’ the turtle told her . |
| 10 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible . |
| 12 | Well , in the cases we 've taken over the odd twenty years against some of the biggest companies in the world indicate that that is n't the er , position . |
| 13 | It means we have taken out a major supplier of cannabis in the south of England . ’ |
| 14 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 15 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 16 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 17 | They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants . |
| 18 | They have taken over the unfinished Bristol Babe project ( BAPC.87 ) held by the Hemswell Aviation Society . |
| 19 | The recruits themselves have taken on a new air of self-confidence . |