Example sentences of "took [adv] [noun] 's [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the orders of Moussa Traoré , who was a lieutenant when he took over Mali 's government in 1968 , soldiers fired on rioting crowds . |
| 4 | He was replaced by Gerhard Hanekom , hitherto Agriculture , Water and Rural Development Minister ; former Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Anton von Wietersheim took over Hanekom 's portfolios at a time of national emergency as a result of the drought [ see p. 38855 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Many women took over men 's duties in the public services , operating railway signals , acting as porters , driving buses and working in the Fire Brigade and the Police . |
| 7 | He next took over SIS 's organization in Switzerland . |
| 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 | The controversial Budget of 1909 ( initially rejected by the Lords and finally passed in April 1910 after a general election on the issue and amidst continuing constitutional conflict ) took further Asquith 's moves towards a graduated income tax . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |