Example sentences of "[adv] to take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 2 | Sadly the ex England Captain is n't fit enough to take up the offer of a first division runabout before the Japanese season gets underway . |
| 3 | None of these operations , however , was strong enough to take on the role of nurturing talent or providing a supportive home for creative filmmakers . |
| 4 | Is there anybody brave enough to take on the post of SAA Executive Secretary ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 7 | But religious language not only provided a link between different political constituencies , it offered a set of concepts , a rhetoric of resistance and a strength of moral certainty powerful enough to take on the weight of the medical and political establishment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She 's sixteen , old enough to take over the housekeeping . ’ |
| 10 | The other way to find out is to cover each eye in turn ; if there 's a squint , the bad eye will generally move outwards to take over the job of seeing . |
| 11 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 12 | The sixth came after young Sarah Wade sneaked in to take on the Stockton defence in style . |
| 13 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 14 | The fire brigade were called in to take down the ropes that year . ) |
| 15 | In October 1966 , however , one year after the decision not to take up the option on the book , David V. Picker at UA bought the movie rights . |
| 16 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 17 | I have alerted the Director of Education to the likelihood that a decision on whether or not to take up the school site might need to be taken sooner than originally thought . |
| 18 | Miss Kyte chose not to take up the challenge . |
| 19 | Sir Michael Angus made it a double whammy for Unilever as the outgoing plc chairman , soon to take up the cudgels on behalf of the CBI , entered the International Marketing Hall of Fame . |
| 20 | Eventually , the polyps bud in a different way and produce miniature medusae which detach themselves and wriggle away to take up the swimming life once more . |
| 21 | The Ministry is due shortly to take over the countryside premium scheme . |
| 22 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 23 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 24 | Accordingly she wrote to her favourite niece Lilian Baylis , then in South Africa , requesting that she should return home to take over the management of the theatre . |
| 25 | He stood up and bent his knees slightly to take out the stiffness . |
| 26 | In Manchester , there was open speculation that Bobby Charlton , probably the most famous player in United 's history and also a director , was being lined up to take over the chairmanship after a Midani bid . |
| 27 | He put his hands out to take up the carving knife and fork and Amy Hall murmured something to her neighbour about Arthur always having wanted to be a surgeon really . |
| 28 | Deciding now to take up the practice of law again , Herbert thought that the best opening would be to build up a country practice . |
| 29 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 30 | Partly because this is one void pressure flow study , and so we have evolved from here to take on the sort of technology that was pioneered in this country by David , using a simple ambulatory erm study , and we 've added to this erm er a hard wire connection from a flowmeter . |