Example sentences of "[adv] take [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did ! |
| 2 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 3 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 4 | Andrew hesitated for a second , apparently taken aback by the ease with which he had gained his free dinner . |
| 5 | In no other human discipline , not in philosophy , nor science , nor music , is it believed that there has been a particular revelation of God in history , so that that point in history is then necessarily taken up into the discipline . |
| 6 | Sharpe was somewhat taken aback by the girl 's directness , but he nodded . |
| 7 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 8 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 9 | The match itself was 12-a-side , the decision to make it so taken late in the day . |
| 10 | Moran was so taken aback by the way Sheila had seized the envelope from his hand that he stood in amazement . |
| 11 | He was so taken aback by the poverty of the Tanzanian secondary school that he determined to do something about it when he returned to his own school , St Aloysius College in Glasgow . |
| 12 | b ) The applied finish might not take properly to the surface and flake off . |
| 13 | The Grocers did not take kindly to the breakaway and , with the support of the Lord Mayor , the Commons were approached to revoke the decision . |
| 14 | The downside is that some memory managers might not take kindly to the reload option , but if you try it and can get away with it , it 's the one to opt for . |
| 15 | Less directly but equally importantly , people living in the vicinity of a large plant would not take kindly to the idea that it was not under the control of human beings who are on the spot and are assumed to know exactly what is happening . |
| 16 | Above all , they did not take kindly to the notion of becoming citizens of a European Union . |
| 17 | The plane that would not take off without the khat |
| 18 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 19 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 20 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 21 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 22 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 23 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 24 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 25 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 26 | At the provincial level there are Land Use Planning Officers , although their time is largely taken up by the supervision of settlement schemes and in planning state farms ( Stocking 1981b ) . |
| 27 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 28 | The securities firm acts as an underwriter for a number of various companies ( an underwriter buys all residue shares not taken up in the share issue they have promoted ) . |
| 29 | However , the papers are unified by a common factor : they all draw on a body of writing and thinking — with admittedly elastic boundaries — which is not taken seriously by the mainstream as having anything to offer philosophy . |
| 30 | But it was not taken seriously in the West and Moscow did not persist in linking these American bases to the INF negotiations underway . |