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 You seem to take up an awful lot of energy and time .
5 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 ?
6 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 .
7 Welcome back : Coming up shortly , the ghostwatchers who 've taken on a whole houseful of spirits .
8 You have taken on a great responsibility , ’ the turtle told her .
9 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 .
10 ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible .
11 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 .
12 It means we have taken out a major supplier of cannabis in the south of England . ’
13 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 .
14 ‘ 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 . ’
15 They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants .
16 They have taken over the unfinished Bristol Babe project ( BAPC.87 ) held by the Hemswell Aviation Society .
17 The recruits themselves have taken on a new air of self-confidence .
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