Example sentences of "have take [adv prt] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 A consistent feature of unpaid caring , demonstrated by all the available detailed studies , is that once a particular relative has taken on the responsibility for the care of an elderly or handicapped person they get rather limited support , if any , from other relatives or friends .
2 Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher .
3 On the other hand , when she had taken up the carpets for a dance for Algy and filled the house with sixteen-year-old boys from Harrow and Marlborough , she twitched to the thin soprano signals of public-school lust like a dog hearing the squeak of a rat in its sleep .
4 By July 6 Mladenov 's own Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) had taken up the call for his resignation with an editorial in the party newspaper Duma .
5 Palm have taken on the franchise for Dagger kayaks .
6 A group of children have taken up a campaign for a footpath outside their school .
7 Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford .
8 Welcome to Save The Children in Sutton Coldfield where children from school have taken over the shop for a day .
9 Sally the lass who 's taken over the buying for precision bearings , is a great lass got on great with her , and Richard .
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