Example sentences of "to take [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from this summit meeting of minds there will also be the chance for other boffins of the black and white board to take on past champion John Hegarty , who is challenging all comers .
2 But many other operas seem to take naturally to water .
3 As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence .
4 The Ramblers ' Association ( RA ) have condemned as ‘ shameful ’ the government 's approval of an army plan to take over for training 900 acres of common land at Holcombe near Bury , Manchester .
5 BOBBY CHARLTON , the former Manchester United and England forward , who is now a club director , made it clear yesterday that he would be willing to take over as chairman ‘ if the right person asked me ’ .
6 I have left the way clear for anyone to take over as chairman .
7 By then Chapman 's name was being linked with Leeds City , and in May 1912 he accepted an offer to take over as secretary-manager of the Yorkshire club .
8 So 1968/69 loomed and Reg Pybus seemed the natural choice to take over as manager .
9 He set out his plans exclusively to TODAY after a BBC poll showed him ahead of the competition to take over as President of the Board of Trade .
10 With Mark Wright injured , Nottingham Forest hard man Stuart Pearce is standing by to take over as skipper .
11 ‘ I want you to take over from Nurse Calvert when they 've finished in Room G with Mrs Cole . ’
12 Davies had come on when Swansea scored their second try to take over from flanker Alan Reynolds , who had a foot injury .
13 Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy .
14 Great Valour of Firgorran , who was to be the sire of the first Rottweiler to take Best in Show at Tux Nationals , Ch.
15 Salvo of Firgorran , the first Rottweiler to take Best in Show at the Tux Nationals .
16 Stolid , neat and terrifically inoffensive , these were the sort of highlights you 'd be happy to take home to mother .
17 We expect planes to take off on time .
18 There was every reason to take off for home , and nothing he could see to stop him .
19 There had been things Crevecoeur could have done to get out , such as take advantage of the open invitation to take up with Cab 's natro group .
20 I just came to see if the coffee was ready for me to take up to Papa .
21 if you intend to take up outside employment , self employment or consultancy work , either during your time working in the ES or after you have left the Employment Service , with any organisation with whom you have had dealings while working in the ES ;
22 They 're for Dee to take back to University
23 Pupils might make stone rubbings to take back to school .
24 What I do want is some wine to take back to school tomorrow , oh er I mean
25 The young teacher who goes from success at school to success at college and university ( like his/her Swedish or Russian counterpart ) is likely to take back into school as a teacher the assumptions which underpinned this personal success .
26 This makes allowance for installing heaters in the gallery area which we are due to take back in hand at the end of September .
27 Unnecessarily overcomplicated supplementary provisions require the payment into court to be treated as increased by the amount shown on the certificate , although the plaintiff is not allowed to take out of court more than the amount actually paid in .
28 Unlike lead , which the fuel companies eventually proved only too pleased to take out of petrol , sulphur does nothing for either the performance or longevity of diesel engines and it contributes to acid rain .
29 Mr Paisley , MP for North Antrim , said internment should be used to take out of circulation those who were seeking to destroy , murder and maim .
30 On the issue that the Secretary of State has just discussed with the defence spokesman of the Ulster Unionist party , the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) , while holding that it should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised Government to take out of circulation those who are seeking to destroy , murder and maim , will he give a full assurance to the House that he will undertake that act , if he has to do so , as a British Minister responsible to this House , and not in cliques with the Dublin Government who say that they would need to approve such a move ?
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