Example sentences of "[coord] take [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 2 | Robyn opens a drawer in her desk and takes out the appropriate chit . |
| 3 | This change will allow the Gallery to set itself up permanently on a proper funding basis , with the possibility of a number of options : it could move into public ownership , either national or local ; alternatively , a private sponsor might come forward and take on the entire enterprise . |
| 4 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 5 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 6 | ‘ We listened to Joe Lewis , In The Mood , that sort of thing and took up the whole floor for dancing — they hardly move around now . |
| 7 | Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . |
| 8 | Determined to honour the family tradition of social responsibility , she forgot her various ailments , put aside her various unfinished manuscripts , and took on the onerous commitment of managing one of the most important zinc factories in the United Kingdom at a time when women were virtually excluded from the boardrooms of business and commerce . |
| 9 | Duncan opened the folder and took out the slim report . |
| 10 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 11 | In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time . |
| 12 | What is needed from you Congress is to fight these distortions and to take back the front page headlines and make sure that the headlines are accurate , fair and truthful . |
| 13 | They identify with the global capitalist system , reconceptualize their several national interests in terms of the global system , and take on the political project of reconceptualizing the national interests of their co-nationals in terms of the global capitalist system . |
| 14 | By the middle of next year the bank will move its head office into Poultry , and take on the heavy mantle of tradition . |
| 15 | On Friday 2nd April at Lansdowne Football Club , Lansdowne Road , they take the wraps off the music of the night — and take over the entire Club in the process ! . |
| 16 | He realised first that a muon in the vicinity of a hydrogen atom would orbit 207 times nearer to the central nucleus than would the electron , and so the muon would get inside the electron 's orbit and take over the electrical attraction of the proton ; it is an atomic ‘ excuse me ’ dance routine . |
| 17 | Primary earnings under F R S Three including everything down twenty one percent , but taking out the non-operating items , that 's the erm fixed assets , er profit sales on the one hand and the old extraordinaries on the other , and you have I think a more meaningful guide to our performance a reduction in any nine percent . |
| 18 | His execution was probably a mistake , for it deprived the north of its only effective military leader , and left Edward little option but to take over the same policy and conclude a truce . |