Example sentences of "[pron] be take [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 2 | This transformation provided the skeleton for the Christianity which was to take over the Germanic world , to mould it and modify it in turn . |
| 3 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 4 | By early evening the company second in command had exchanged his helicopter for a Land-Rover , and was out visiting the platoons in their trenches again , before returning to barracks to brief the part-time soldiers who were taking over the mobile patrolling tasks for the night . |
| 5 | We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts . |
| 6 | The only activity at the plant that is secure is mainframe manufacture — as well as the water-cooled ES/9000s it already builds , it is to take over the air-cooled models currently built at the Valencia , Spain plant , as well . |
| 7 | Today ranked number eight , he was taking on the best of British , Jeremy Bates . |
| 8 | It looked as if he was taking on the whole KGB . |
| 9 | Yesterday he was taking on the anti-government creed of the 1980s which left economics to the free market . |
| 10 | He was taken on the indispensable visit to Holford Glen , and it was there , seated by the side of the brook , that the brief exchange took place which Coleridge was still repeating in his old age : ‘ Citizen John , ’ Coleridge remarked , ‘ this is a fine place to talk treason in ! ’ |