Example sentences of "take [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen bands play better soundchecks and it did n't take long for self ( and a few others ) to head for home . |
| 2 | In the same week in which President Bush appeared on national television brandishing $3,200 worth of cocaine ( coercively obtained from a dealer who was dragged a block or two nearer the White House ) to raise the air-time mileage he earns on drugs , it did not take long for outrage to be expressed . |
| 3 | Some supporters of her National Opposition Coalition , known as U N O cheered dutifully , others booed her announcement that although she would take over as Minister of Defence , General Ortega was staying on . |
| 4 | Speculation that Hani would take over as head of the SACP at the end of the year increased following the announcement on Aug. 27 that Slovo was suffering from cancer . |
| 5 | it was a similar story when Haslam moved to become deputy chairman of ICI Fibres in 1969 with the intention that he would soon take over as chairman . |
| 6 | He had known from an early age that Jamel , as the older brother , would take over as leader of Zimbala once their father died . |
| 7 | Ms Lamont , who will take over as chairwoman in March , will set out in a speech to the group its objectives for the 1990s and urge female supporters to continue the fight to shape the party 's agenda to reflect their concerns . |
| 8 | Kolchinsky would take over as Director . |
| 9 | TGA will take over from Frontline Aviation . |
| 10 | Peace with France came and food prices fell , but mob rule in Cornwall could still take over from time to time . |
| 11 | Table 20 indicates the jobs that the wives felt they could take over in addition to their present domestic and farm situation . |
| 12 | Regarding Woodhouse Close are the readers aware that the deal involves a housing association which will take over in excess of 150 of these properties ? |
| 13 | Middlesbrough teenager Ian McGuckin looks set to continue after an impressive first-team debut against Darlington , while Steve Fletcher could take over in attack from injured Andy Saville . |
| 14 | In fact , they flatly refused to play unless they could take over in defence . |
| 15 | One could take home to mother |
| 16 | ‘ The sort you could take home to mother ? ’ |
| 17 | the magazine had the final say on the format of the finished pattern , so I found myself having to pass over things like ‘ Take off on a hand knitting needle ’ when I knew full well that it would be much easier to ‘ take off on waster yarn ’ . |
| 18 | Anyway , they 'll not take off on time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What the world wants is a fast and comfortable commuter airliner that can land and take off from helicopter pads and heliports , which are now fairly common in the big cities , ’ he said . |
| 20 | There could be more awareness of the ways in which women with children can get out of the home to meet socially or take up outside employment , and more facilities to increase those opportunities . |
| 21 | Our main concern is with linear polymers and the ordered or semi-ordered structures which they may take up in solution , in the melt or in the solid state . |
| 22 | This is usually taken to reflect a generalized normative expectation that women are the appropriate carers ; although empirical evidence about normative expectations is actually fairly sparse ( a point which I shall take up in chapter 5 ) . |
| 23 | Many readers will be troubled , however , by one aspect of political integrity , which we might well take up in advance . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it does n't just take both into account in terms of some vague philosophical waffle , you know , that anybody could come to , sitting on a bar stool , after they 've had enough er , dry martinis , you know as people sometimes good , people sometimes bad . |
| 25 | How many do you take out on tour with you ? |
| 26 | Why do n't we take out from access , so takes out a job number , sorry from accounts and just say take out a job number . |
| 27 | ‘ I tell you what , you can take tomorrow off school . ’ |
| 28 | Though after a moment of considering her question , seemed to think that there was no harm in revealing , ‘ I believe the dog does not take well to city life — he is up at the house . ’ |
| 29 | But she does not take kindly to criticism . |
| 30 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |