Example sentences of "the [noun] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What role should the researchers take on ? |
| 2 | Then you let the words take over where words do it best ’ ( quoted in Lanes , 1981 , p.110 ) . |
| 3 | No one really sensible would have got into such a mess in Other world — letting the panic take over and not even trying to think straight . |
| 4 | Would the fares take up too much of the money ? |
| 5 | In my love-making I simply held him close and let the rest take over , rounded off with a simple kiss . |
| 6 | For in dropping the source markers the author has , for the moment , ceased to speak with her own voice — ceased to supply the narrative thread ( which is what the source markers do ) — and has let the characters take over . |
| 7 | No wonder they had let the army take over this area ; it was worth nothing for farming . |
| 8 | It was just after nine the following night , rain pounding in from the Atlantic , when Asa stood in the control tower at Laville and watched the Dornier take off . |
| 9 | Sobchak demonstrates how , with grace and elegance , a woman can let the man take off her coat ; how to be coquettish , without being vulgar , and betray interest without immediate surrender . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't let — ; would n't let — the Cause take over my life . ’ |
| 11 | Currently if one of the processors fails , the machine collapses in a heap , but Haines says that work is in progress to let the others take over , more neatly . |
| 12 | The way the paint 's put on in various places makes the painting take off , as it were , where the paint gets fuzzy ’ . |
| 13 | But tonight Adamski either let the technology take over , or , as I suspect , simply does not have the material ( yet ) to sustain an evening 's entertainment . |
| 14 | But tonight Adamski either let the technology take over , or , as I suspect , simply does not have the material ( yet ) to sustain an evening 's entertainment . |
| 15 | Tell a story set in the past and decide where you will stop to let the class take over . |
| 16 | appointment he erm he let , he let the client take over the the call because he was n't erm prepared enough when he were n't there . |