Example sentences of "[pron] take [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 2 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 3 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 4 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
| 5 | ( Here , incidentally , is my take on the homosexual male . |
| 6 | It concluded ‘ that there would be little trouble in finding someone to take up the unassigned bonds when it is known that bonds in Sunningdale and other golf links have increased nearly 50% since their issue ’ . |
| 7 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British . |
| 8 | China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , has flatly rejected two plans . |
| 9 | The Scale 2 teacher-librarian was part of this committee , which took on the ambitious brief of integrating a spiral of library and learning skills within the lower-school curriculum . |
| 10 | Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration . |
| 11 | See again Mushtaq 's lovely googly which sank Hick and the speedy Akram incutter which took out the dangerous lewis first ball : Fairbrother 's heroic counterattack , his face genuinely strained : that final catch to clinch Pakistan 's victory … off Imran 's final ball in international cricket ? |
| 12 | Similarly , the hero of The Prelude is taken from the ‘ educational processes ’ of the Lake District , Cambridge and so on , which take up the first half of the poem , and engages with society and history in the conflicts of the French Revolution ; the Revolution is not to be taken as a purely fortuitous occurrence , but the main event of the time , that which separates off the Modern Age from all that had gone before . |
| 13 | Most bacteria come into the category either of Gram-positive , which take up the purple stain , or Gram-negative which do n't . |
| 14 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 15 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 16 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 17 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 18 | She took up the beautiful veil you bought me , put it on her own head , then turned to admire herself in the mirror . |
| 19 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 20 | Tearing open a pocket in her bag , she took out the offending objects and thrust them towards Rourke . |
| 21 | She took out the small parcel and ran downstairs . |
| 22 | She took out the red spray and in letters a foot high , began " Greenham Common Women … " |
| 23 | She took out the electric beater and arranged it to beat cream , while Mrs Palichuk watched , fascinated . |
| 24 | Also to be released is Wilton Mkwayi , who took over the overall command of the ANC 's military wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe , after the others were jailed but was himself arrested and jailed for life in 1965 . |
| 25 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 26 | The game boys who took on the big boys , and won , |
| 27 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 28 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 29 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 30 | The two pluses are books , thanks largely to Addison Wesley , thankfully decisively so and the oil services business and the only other item worth reflecting , I think worth er , remarking on , is in fact that if you take out the black hole effect er , the entertainment fall was only two million and I think that is a creditable performance . |