Example sentences of "take [adv] [noun prp] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The State Department believed that the US must either take on Britain 's role as protector of Near Eastern states from Russia , or witness a major advance for Communism . |
| 2 | However , there is more than a chance that Brewer will take over Gary 's role as captain , and Alan 's place on the blindside of the scrum . |
| 3 | Motorola Inc 's semiconductor chief James Norling is moving to Europe to head up Motorola Europe , Middle East and Africa , succeeding David Bartram , who is retiring June 30 after 32 years : Thomas George , executive vice-president and assistant general manager of the Semiconductor Products group , will take over Norling 's post on April 1 . |
| 4 | After he had bowed himself out of the room , Cynthia remained behind and , taking pen and paper , took down Dorothy 's letter to ha dictation . |
| 5 | Lee Kuan Yew 's son Lee Hsien Loong took over Goh 's post as PAP first assistant secretary-general and remained a Deputy Prime Minister ; however , he had given up the Trade and Industry portfolio in mid-November after announcing that he was undergoing treatment for cancer . |
| 6 | At the orders of Moussa Traoré , who was a lieutenant when he took over Mali 's government in 1968 , soldiers fired on rioting crowds . |
| 7 | In the resulting reshuffle Klaus Kinkel became Foreign Minister , while Möllemann took over Genscher 's post of Vice-Chancellor in addition to the Economics portfolio , and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger ( FDP ) took over from Kinkel as Justice Minister . |
| 8 | At the time Alkar was audited by Grant Thornton , but Arthur Young , WG 's auditor , took over Alkar 's audit after the acquisition . |
| 9 | By 1715 when the syndicate took over Savery 's part of the patent there were engines in use in Staffordshire , Warwickshire , Cornwall and Flintshire . |
| 10 | , John ( c. 1590–1651 ) , royal gun-founder and patentee , was born in Chiddingstone , Kent , about 1590 , the son of Thomas Browne , founder of iron ordnance to Queen Elizabeth I and James I. He joined his father 's thriving business , although not apprenticed in ironmaking , and took over Thomas 's patent in 1615 . |
| 11 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
| 12 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |
| 13 | It examines the considerable difficulties , both intellectual and practical , of taking seriously HMI 's view of the curriculum as needing to be broad , balanced and coherent . |
| 14 | By taking seriously Eliot 's debt to the French symbolistes ( as before him only Allen Tate had done , in The New Republic , 30 June 1926 ) , Wilson was still stressing Eliot 's Americanness by showing at any rate how un-British he was . |
| 15 | IN ENGLAND ‘ Chuck ’ Fleetwood-Smith is probably remembered , if at all , merely for having twisted down 87 overs and taken only Hammond 's wicket for 298 runs when England scored 903 for 7 at The oval in 1938 . |
| 16 | Attlee , had he won the 1935 election , would have taken exactly Baldwin 's line in substance , but at that stage in his career would have done so without assurance or persuasiveness . |
| 17 | From about 1563 until his death in 1590 they were held by Charles Fox , although he had to share the Signet with John Dudley ; and in 1590 Fox was succeeded by Fulke Greville , who had already taken over Dudley 's share of the Signet and had acquired reversions to the Clerkship of the Council in 1577 and the Secretaryship in 1583 . |
| 18 | That would leave him little time to blend in with his new team-mates before they take on Luxembourg 's Spora in the opening round of the UEFA Cup . |
| 19 | Was this his way of asking her to take over Lotta 's place in his life ? |
| 20 | Offe and Wiesenthal ( 1980 ) take further Olson 's analysis of the logic of collective action ( discussed on pp. 159–63 ) . |
| 21 | Whether or not Aldershot need to take up Swindon 's offer of hospitality depends on a high court hearing on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |
| 23 | In the case of modularity , there seems a natural explication if we take seriously Minsky 's idea of a highest organizing module . |
| 24 | Thus the reference to the ruined walls of Eblis , in Aquitaine , is not gratuitous ; and we know from other passages that Pound 's refusal in the last resort to take seriously Russia 's contribution to European culture was grounded in his notion that Russia had never produced an indigenous tradition of stone architecture . |