Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [adv prt] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table .
2 Over half of that can be eliminated by buying British , so marketing can produce considerable improvement and it takes on a new and dramatic urgency .
3 He took over an existing but derelict blast furnace at Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) which had been set up in 1638 , and in 1709 he discovered the method of smelting iron with coke instead of charcoal .
4 He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research .
5 So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited .
6 He took out a key and let himself into the building .
7 From his saddlebag he took out a frayed and crease-torn map .
8 Once settled in an armchair , he took out a shortish but fairly carbonized pipe and began smoking .
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