Example sentences of "took [adv] [noun prp] 's [noun sg] [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 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 .
5 At the time Alkar was audited by Grant Thornton , but Arthur Young , WG 's auditor , took over Alkar 's audit after the acquisition .
6 By 1715 when the syndicate took over Savery 's part of the patent there were engines in use in Staffordshire , Warwickshire , Cornwall and Flintshire .
7 , 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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