Example sentences of "and [vb past] take [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he had relented , and agreed to take up the career she had chosen for him . |
| 2 | Without waiting for an answer , she walked round to the boot and began to take out the luggage . |
| 3 | He picked up the envelope and began to take out the sheet of paper inside . |
| 4 | The motorway slashed on through fields and villages without regard for either , and after a while the villages flowed together and became towns , and the towns joined and merged to take on the appearance of a city . |
| 5 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 6 | Yakovlev had been editor of Moskovskiye novosti , a newspaper which had extended the boundaries of freedom of speech during the perestroika period , and had taken over the chairmanship of All-Union Television and Radio ( which became Ostankino in December 1991 " see p. 38655 ) in August 1991 after the failed coup [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 7 | The perplexing thing was that Bella , whom he had now nerved himself to telephone every other evening with news of Sam , seemed not to mind the untenable situation particularly and had taken up the flute . |