Example sentences of "was take [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 2 | Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites . |
| 3 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 4 | About a dozen mental patients going through rehabilitation in Aylesbury have been working on the boat which was taken on by the Dandelion Trust . |
| 5 | Much of the previous chapter was taken up with the question of what kind of economy is emerging in the UK . |
| 6 | The morning was taken up with the Townhead Cup , a stroke play competition resulting in a close fought battle between Eddie Docherty and Andrew Beattie . |
| 7 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 8 | A vast bulk of political time was taken up with the importunacy of subjects : petitions for an office or a wardship or a lease of Crown land ; begging letters for pensions ; suits for a pardon ; requests for the Crown 's help in a law-case . |
| 9 | The latter part of the Heath Government was taken up with the enforcement of its incomes policies and when the miners , having defeated the government in 1972 , challenged again in late 1973 , the government resisted while trying to find a formula for concession . |
| 10 | The front page was taken up with the Leader 's activities : a photograph showed him pumping along a line of soldiers , his elbows thrust back , his chest puffed out , its outline blurred by hoary growth ; Doric-square , his famous chin jutted up and outwards , as he took a salute of volunteers for Africa at a little trot . |
| 11 | Now Easter was taken up with the sort of playing in the streets virtually . |
| 12 | The remainder of the afternoon was taken up with the routine matters of the Branch , the only Bank on the Island , and in discussions with Peter and the three ladies on the staff . |
| 13 | Last year , the initiative for an open day for justice in the Cour d'Appel in Paris was taken up with the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 14 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 15 | Even the inheritance of acquired characters was taken up as the centrepiece for a self-consciously anti-Darwinian movement known as ‘ neo-Lamarckism ’ . |
| 16 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 17 | The theory of women 's arrested development was taken up in the debate over women 's inferior mental ability . |
| 18 | Their campaign was taken up in the Commons by backbencher Michael Stephen . |
| 19 | This notion was taken up in the model proposed by Pearce and Hall ( 1980 ) ( and developed by Hall and Pearce ( 1982 ) , and by Pearce , Kaye , and Hall ( 1982 ) ) , which was presented originally as an account of classical conditioning . |
| 20 | This coupling of social insurance with a safety net of means-tested benefits was taken up in the Beveridge Plan which settled the framework of the welfare state after the Second World War ( Beveridge , 1942 ) . |
| 21 | The cry was taken up by the loser of the previous fight who was still watching the new contest from his tree . |
| 22 | The morning was taken up by the competition itself and after a good lunch in the Clubhouse , a fun game was organised in the afternoon . |
| 23 | Worse atrocities had occurred in Scotland , but ‘ the massacre of Glencoe ’ was taken up by the government 's critics , and has remained a convenient stick with which to stir up nationalistic sentiment ever since . |
| 24 | The same has turned out to be true of show-jumping , a little-known landed pursuit before it was taken up by the BBC as a sport which might appeal to women , especially when Pat Smythe rode Flanagan to four European Championship victories between 1957 and 1963 . |
| 25 | After that my attention was taken up by the organisation 's move to the new building . |
| 26 | Much US media interest in the summit was taken up by the issue of whether there were still US prisoners of war alive in the former Soviet Union and whether information was available on US soldiers declared missing in action ( MIA ) . |
| 27 | The revival of Evangelicalism in the later part of the eighteenth century was taken up by the groups whose passion for reform , restricting drunkenness and violent sports , were opposed to the whole basis of the Sussex labourers ’ principal recreations ; simple religious faith in fundamentals among ordinary people may not have been much affected , but organised religion was probably largely irrelevant to the pattern of daily life . |
| 28 | Instead of answering his own question , Rafiq let out a high-pitched wail , which was taken up by the rest of the men . |
| 29 | Until he was taken up by the Princesse Mathilde . |
| 30 | She explained that once the gene mist was inhaled it was taken up by the body 's cells and corrected the defect . |