Example sentences of "to take [adv prt] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unions tried to take over the country . |
| 2 | The president is a zealous evangelical Christian , obsessed of late by what he calls a ‘ plot ’ by a ‘ mafia ’ of drug traffickers to take over the country . |
| 3 | How wonderful , I thought , if today 's humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar 's army in 54 BC , landing to take over the country ; be in burning Rome as Nero fiddled ; get involved in Europe 's tragic thirty years war , etc. , etc . |
| 4 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 5 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |