Example sentences of "[conj] take [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 2 | It also allows the diarrhoetic person no time for listening or taking in from the other . |
| 3 | These were created or taken over by the state at various times since the first examples under the 1906–14 Liberal Government , but the largest group of Nationalization Acts covering coal , road and rail services , gas , electricity and iron and steel came under the 1945 — 51 Labour Government . |
| 4 | Housework and childcare have remained largely privatised , neither integrated into socialised commodity production , nor taken over by the state , unlike education and the health service . |
| 5 | In The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) , Lockwood plays a ruthless woman who enters the house of an old schoolfriend as a governess and takes up with the man of the house . |
| 6 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 7 | He had revealed a capacity for giving with one hand and taking away with the other . |
| 8 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 9 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 10 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 11 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 12 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 13 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |
| 14 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 15 | a certificate of posting should be obtained in either case if taken directly to the post office or a file note of despatch kept if posted through internal mailing system ; |
| 16 | At last the Stones were bundled into the building and taken up onto the roof for the promised interview . |
| 17 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 18 | The trend was started by The Independent , and taken up by The Guardian , more for commercial reasons than as a principled stand . |
| 19 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 20 | And if either of these things happened to her then Odette and Liam would be separated and taken away to the work-house , Odette with her heart in pieces and her nerves in tatters , Liam retreating so far into that anxious silence of his that nothing would ever bring him out again . |
| 21 | She was towed into the house as before and taken straight to the nursery despite Mrs Chamberlin 's protests that dressed like this they should take Miss Abbott to the drawing-room , the parlour at least , she insisted — ; |
| 22 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 23 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 24 | Any points similar to these which arise from any section of the application form/c.v. should be noted and taken in to the interview as a reminder . |
| 25 | ‘ The parcels are collected during the day by one of our franchisees and taken back to the depot . |
| 26 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 27 | The position of the runway and the topography of the island means that planes normally land and take off over the sea . |
| 28 | There was a small ceremony inside the church , although the body was not brought to the chapel but taken directly to the crematorium . |
| 29 | It is difficult to measure the extent to which stockholding influences decision-making , but taken together with the interchange of personnel through interlocking directorships , trading connections are most certainly cemented through financial channels . |
| 30 | Some dogs may become over excited when taken out in the car , associating this with walks . |