Example sentences of "[adv] take [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 2 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 4 | There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself . |
| 5 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 6 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 7 | It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 8 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 9 | Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ? |
| 10 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 11 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 12 | And then , you can always take out the extra insurance with er , no but it is n't very much for a tumble-drier , for five years and there 's no problems that way . |
| 13 | I 'll know it 'll be he who 'll end up cassandring me , precisely in nomansland where the male gods will ever take over the pythian oracles , turning them into twittering spokespersons . |
| 14 | Orwell has left us with a graphic description of a typical reader , the elderly lady who always took out the same books , year-in year-out — a thing not possible incidentally in today 's rapid-turnover public libraries — with the word , ‘ I do love a drop of Dell ! ’ referring to the popular writer Ethel M. Dell . |
| 15 | She joined the Boat Race squad last January and quickly took over the Blue boat . |
| 16 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 17 | Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office . |
| 18 | Nafissa Lalliam was replaced as Health Minister by Mohammed Salah Mentouri , who also took over the Social Affairs portfolio but another woman , Anissa Benameur entered the Cabinet as Minister for Vocational Training and Employment , replacing Mohammed Bonmahrat . |
| 19 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
| 20 | In her room , she sat on the bed and opening her travelling bag carefully took out the satin-lined box . |
| 21 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |
| 22 | Some have bemoaned the fast food outlet that has now taken over the odd corner of the Piazza , but this is the site of the ancient Milanese fiera ( fair ) — the name itself means Square of the Merchants — and doubtless on fair days the Piazza was not the ocean of calm many claim it must have been . |
| 23 | She did n't take out the folded sheet . |
| 24 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 25 | Marx fancied that he could simply take over the Hegelian analysis and , in Engels ' famous phrase , ‘ stand Hegel the right way up ’ with no reference to the fact that Hegel 's whole analysis is rooted in an effort to resolve quite specific problems which he inherited in the theory of knowledge . |
| 26 | Marcuson found himself increasingly taking on the editorial running of the paper . |
| 27 | They even took over the small police station in the El Calvario district , the nearest to the main market , and executed a number of the constables who had taken part in the massacre . |
| 28 | The compounds , known as gamma linolenic acid ( GLA ) derivatives , are produced by a British-Canadian company , Scotia Pharmaceuticals , which six years ago took over the former fish drying factory at Callanish on the west coast of Lewis as its principal production unit . |
| 29 | Source C describes how they bravely took over the dangerous jobs in munitions factories , and how they joined or worked alongside the armed services , either joining women 's armed services , or working as nurses out on the battlefront . |
| 30 | The song is , it appears , about the lack of sex education in schools , a subject which we at Public NME feel is indeed worthy of airing , and what a shame more of our nation 's pop stars have n't taken up the musical cudgel , so to speak . |