Example sentences of "take [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debussy takes over for the first two of five of the Eight Piano Pieces Op. 15 , of Dirk Schäfer ( 1873–1931 ) — surprisingly , in view of the derisory remarks Schäfer made about Debussy quoted in the notes . |
| 2 | DAVE BIRKETT has resigned as captain of Rainhill , so Ray Ford takes over for tomorrow 's Bromborough Paints Merseyside Competition game at Ainsdale . |
| 3 | ‘ Not one person who has met the qualifying standard before the plane takes off for Auckland will be left behind , ’ Hunter said . |
| 4 | When Robert Layton , from Leominster in Herefordshire , takes off for Portugal on Saturday , he 'll be literally flying on a wing and a prayer , a wing of nylon and a prayer for good weather . |
| 5 | Erm I have four or five people I can take on for any one of those companies so nobody 's in competition with |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | During the famous Intermezzo the conductor asked Mascagni if he would take over for a moment . |
| 8 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 9 | Clyde Walcott , the former Test batsman who is now chairman of the West Indies Board , will take over for the remainder of the series . |
| 10 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 11 | ‘ You could let Rose take over for a little . ’ |
| 12 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 13 | He would take off for days and no one would see him . |
| 14 | I , I er , looks like erm teaching eleven fifteen to one fifteen my lunch hour is say one fifteen to two fifteen and technically I can er have it , I could probably , I could be , take off Friday afternoon , it 's the only time I could take off for averaging |
| 15 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 16 | He did n't , you did n't take out for nearly a year though in n it Bedge ? |
| 17 | Should another globe-trotting adventure arise , we know what notebook computer we 'll be taking along for the ride . |
| 18 | His vice president Gerald Ford took over for the remainder of his term but lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter . |
| 19 | The Manchester City of Brian Kidd and Mike Channon took over for five weeks until Clough climbed back and proved unshiftable . |
| 20 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |
| 21 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 22 | Purple took over for a while , ha . |
| 23 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 24 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 25 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 26 | In 1961 he took off for New York city to pay his respects to his latest hero , hobo and folk singer Woody Guthrie , then dying of Huntington 's Chorea ; and he returned to Minneapolis later that year a-singing and a-playing , mumbling and slurring his words , just like Woody himself . |
| 27 | ‘ He started to read it as the plane took off for Haifa . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After the celebrations were over , the couple took off for a honeymoon retreat in Asia . |
| 30 | He said later he saw the 109s and took off for home . |