Example sentences of "they take [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On balance he 'd have preferred to have seen them take on a top world fast bowler to ease the new-ball burden on him — as indeed they intended before negotiations with Australia 's Craig McDermott broke down months before the start of the season — but sees at least one advantage in having a star batsman rather than bowler . |
| 2 | They complicated the whole problem of obedience in a quite remarkable way , and they took up a great deal of Anselm 's time as archbishop . |
| 3 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 4 | Together with the freight stations they took up a considerable area of the city . |
| 5 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 6 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 7 | In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath . |
| 8 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 9 | Arsenal 's slump since they took over the Premier League leadership on November 7 has been startling , but Graham admitted : ‘ I do n't even think about winning the title . |
| 10 | They took over the statutory duties and provisions of the old mental health departments . |
| 11 | They took over the main Fleetwood service from the old Company cars , which were then used on the short-workings . |
| 12 | How many of us can say that someone changed when they took on a certain job or changed when something happened at work . |
| 13 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 14 | The Ruffians ' ( 4th XI ) season drew to a close on Saturday when they took on the third team 's opposition at Aldershot . |
| 15 | But at lambing time they take on a total change of character and they can sometimes become very aggressive . |
| 16 | It may be possible to read a listing of a computer program and perhaps make some sense of it but , certainly to many of us who have to use computer programs , they take on a quasi-mystical nature as they are , after all , intangible . |
| 17 | Work on the house still continues , and each year they take on a new project . |
| 18 | Their natural colour is brown , but after feeding , when they may increase their body weight by a third , they take on a redder tinge . |
| 19 | But in the second order system they take on a different set of structural features . |
| 20 | Tonight at 8.00 p.m. they take on a Chinese pairing in their bid to reach the final tomorrow . |
| 21 | Tonight at 8.00 p.m. they take on a Chinese pairing in their bid to reach the final tomorrow . |
| 22 | They take on an elongated shape and fuse with other muscle cells to give a multinucleate muscle fibre . |
| 23 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |