Example sentences of "have taken [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Fox , father of Richard and Rachel , has taken over as the new Chairman . |
| 2 | In the Auvergne , the major agriculture/conservation conflict is clearly in the plains , especially the extensive limagne north of Clermont , where intensive cereal and crop production has taken over from a former bocage ( hedge and pasture ) landscape . |
| 3 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 4 | The Norther Woodworking and DIY Exhibition has taken over from the Northern exhibition that was held annually , later in the year , in Leeds and at Calderdale . |
| 5 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 6 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 7 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 8 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 9 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 10 | Suggestions that some representative element be added to the government , an idea which very few people would have taken seriously before the 1750s , were now being put forward . |
| 11 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |
| 12 | They seem to have taken over from the large black dogs with glowing red eyes to be found in most local folklore collections . |
| 13 | I then had dinner with Trevor Clay , who had taken over at the Royal College of Nursing , and he also agreed that such an offer would be enough to bring them back into negotiation . |
| 14 | The more serious threat of the expanding red weed had taken over as the immediate concern of the controllers . |
| 15 | Doyle had taken over from an unsuccessful coach and in no time had turned everything round . |
| 16 | Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way . |
| 17 | The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice . |
| 18 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 19 | Near Paderborn in Westphalia in the small town of Wewelsburg was the castle of that name which Heinrich Himmler had taken over from the local council in 1934 . |
| 20 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 21 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 22 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 23 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 24 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 25 | Dyson broke off in mid-explanation , frowning at a piece of copy-paper he had taken out of a little brown envelope marked ‘ J. Dyson Esqre . ’ |
| 26 | Erm , right on the expenditure side we have our normal subscriptions for the year , A S erm the F B A S which you all know , there 's no strangers here who do n't know what these are the A L A and the Whale and Dolphin er Preservation Society which we have taken on as a personal thing in the , in the er name of the club because it 's cheaper |
| 27 | Guitarist 's Readers ' Ads have taken over as the foremost private buying , selling , swapping and personnel advertising service around . |
| 28 | ‘ Aga-sagas have taken over from the steamy sex bonkbusters of the Eighties . |
| 29 | Uninhibited by any tradition of building , they have taken off in a confused conglomeration of tile , cement , plastics , marble and paint that would have taxed the imagination of Disney . |
| 30 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |