Example sentences of "[vb past] taken [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 2 | I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation . |
| 3 | The more serious threat of the expanding red weed had taken over as the immediate concern of the controllers . |
| 4 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 5 | The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice . |
| 6 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 7 | Near Paderborn in Westphalia in the small town of Wewelsburg was the castle of that name which Heinrich Himmler had taken over from the local council in 1934 . |
| 8 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 9 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 10 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 11 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 12 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |