Example sentences of "['s] [adj] [noun] take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Larder , who quit as Great Britain 's assistant coach to take over the Chemics , will go to any lengths to help Goulding build on that promising beginning — and bring more success to Widnes in the process . |
| 2 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 3 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 4 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 5 | Cordial relations between the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the PSOE were resumed at a meeting , the first for five years , between UGT secretary-general Nicolás Redondo and PSOE deputy secretary-general Alfonso Guerra on Sept. 30 following a longstanding rift over government economic policy [ see pp. 36359-60 for Redondo 's 1988 refusal to take up the UGT seat on the PSOE executive ] . |