Example sentences of "[is] take [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , he 's taken up with a divorced woman yon end of Gosforth , I understand . |
| 2 | But though the relationship , when satisfactory , is relatively straightforward and works as would be expected when any large organization is taken over by a new and competent managing director , there are other cases where problems can arise . |
| 3 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 4 | In these circumstances it is not difficult to predict speedy failure , unless , as has been proposed , the line is taken over by a British firm which has secured the concession for the building of a line from Shanghai to Peking . |
| 5 | The remainder of the book is taken up with a detailed study of the acquisition and restoration of D–CDLH ( ‘ D–AQUI ’ , ) now operated by Lufthansa as a promotional exercise . |
| 6 | For its catalogue cover , Christie 's chose a painting by a Colombian , Fernando Botero , called ‘ The Dancers ’ , much of which is taken up by a corpulent woman 's behind . |
| 7 | Some of our precious time spent at Low Birk Hatt is taken up by a steady stream of Hannah 's admirers , making a pilgrimage to a place they know so well from the television programmes and books . |
| 8 | The main part of volume three is taken up by a massive review following on from the symbiont chapter in volume two . |
| 9 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 10 | When the steam is taken out of a tense marriage using this process of ventilation , work can continue on resolving the differences and building the quality and richness of the marriage . |