Example sentences of "took [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 2 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 3 | The principle took on particular importance in the light of the development of totalitarian communism , and the Roman church saw the threat to be endemic in the growth of the modern state apparatus , including its welfare institutions . |
| 4 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 5 | He took over total control of the finances and the cheque book . |
| 6 | ‘ Imperialists ’ , and in October 1964 , whilst Khrushchev was on holiday , Brezhnev took over effective control of the U.S.S.R. |
| 7 | KI.107B production versions before Bökow took over complete responsibility for the programme . |
| 8 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 9 | Newfield took over top spot in the premier division after beating Lobster 1-0 with substitute Dino Farrag scoring with his first touch after 76 minutes . |
| 10 | The 1st Battalion the Royal Hampshire Regiment took over operational control of the city of Londonderry on 5 March 1989 . |
| 11 | At thirty-six years of age Kell was chosen as one of its first two directors and shortly afterwards took over full responsibility for the defensive side . |
| 12 | Well , you could get on the case of the Rocktron Utopia system , the first of which ( in the UK , anyway ) was gracing the Washburn stand at the British Music Fair and shortly afterwards took up temporary residence in the Guitarist studio . |