Example sentences of "took [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah , with a similar taste for a Nonconformist ceremony , took on an engineer by the name of William Parfitt at Westminster Congregational Chapel in 1846 . |
| 2 | In 1988 T.R. Shipping took on the responsibility for the Rheintainer Line Agency in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 4 | The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies . |
| 5 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
| 6 | It was then that we took on the giants of the Premier Division , Clutton Town , in the FA Cup . |
| 7 | He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment . |
| 8 | Lydia thought how the country people sometimes took on the look of the land itself , especially the old : how Angharad seemed more part of the land than of her family . |
| 9 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 10 | It was open and I could see inside and the closed loo door took on the semblance of the Berlin Wall . |
| 11 | In 1951 he took on the vice-presidency of the newly formed Musician 's Organization for Peace . |
| 12 | He used ceremonial occasions to launch scathing attacks on conservatives and took on the role of the spokesman of all Hungarians , inside and outside the country . |
| 13 | Stations everywhere took on the role of the Tabard Inn at Southwark , where Chaucer 's pilgrims assembled for their journey to Canterbury . |
| 14 | Desperate for cash following the Swedish debacle , he was one of the first to take on commercial sponsorship by negotiating a less than lucrative deal with Lovetts Panty Hose Ltd , and solely responsible for the bankrupting record fiasco when , at crippling expense , the team took on the guise of the Whaddon Promotion All Stars , and released a record , Go Go Athletic-O . |
| 15 | In their hands , structural anthropology and semiology took on the study of the structural form of meaningful systems . |
| 16 | The acquisition and painstaking restoration of Plas Teg , an exceptionally beautiful early seventeenth-century house in Clwyd , was a brave step for the private individual who took on the house with the help of grants . |
| 17 | With Joseph , however , things took eventually a turn for the better . |
| 18 | In a spasm of irritation he pulled a cloak over his nightshirt , took down a pistol from the wall , and went downstairs into the chilly , stone-smelling darkness of the ground floor , looking for servants . |
| 19 | He produced a notebook and took down the address of the party in Fulham ( as best as I could remember it ) and the time , which I guessed at around 11.15 p.m . |
| 20 | ‘ He cast me in the role of a sort of footballing Dick Whittington , and took down the vases from the mantelpiece to represent my stepping-stones to fame , ’ Bastin recalls . |
| 21 | Medeghino was exiled from Milan to Lake Como for killing a man , and there he took over a castle on the natural fortress of the Sassoi di Musso near the village of Musso at the northern end of the lake , killing the castle 's governor . |
| 22 | It reached a climax in 1977 when another troupe of actors took over a shop in the main street of Shiraz , hard by the mosque , and performed in the shop and on the pavement a play that involved a full frontal rape and laws acts between naked , consenting actors . |
| 23 | It took over a month for the reassessment to be worked out — worth almost £600 . |
| 24 | Most significantly , he took over a monument in the great sanctuary at Delphi , previously intended to commemorate his vanquished opponent Perseus . |
| 25 | She took over the premises behind the bus station in Middlesbrough ( opposite the car park and along from Macdonalds ) and has hardly looked back . |
| 26 | Well I took over the beginning of the year did n't I ? |
| 27 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 28 | As he did the actual stitching , Shelley took over the grip on the tourniquet , until the skin was pulled together , and she was able to give the whole area a good wipe of iodine , before putting a clean dry dressing on the hand . |
| 29 | Wolverton took over the whole of the design work for the Road Vehicle Department of the LMSR , the Chief Designer being Mr Fred Purslow , with a team of young draughtsmen . |
| 30 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |