Example sentences of "took [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Jennings 's absence Neil Barker , one of this season 's England newcomers , took on the chief goalscoring role , ably supported by his captain Andy Halliday . |
| 2 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 3 | Arsenal 's slump since they took over the Premier League leadership on November 7 has been startling , but Graham admitted : ‘ I do n't even think about winning the title . |
| 4 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
| 5 | Florencio Abad , a member of Congress strongly opposed to the continued presence of US bases in the Philippines , took over the Agrarian Reform portfolio and Oscar Orbos took over as Transport and Communications Secretary . |
| 6 | Two days later , on 13 May , shortly before a Christian democrat by the name of Pierre Pflimlin made yet another attempt — as it turned out , successful — to win a vote of confidence in the National Assembly in Paris , a crowd took over the main government building in Algiers . |
| 7 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 8 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |
| 9 | Soldiers again briefly took over the national radio station on Dec. 15 to broadcast their demands . |
| 10 | He took over the White Horse Hotel in Thirsk until it closed in 1961 . |
| 11 | Because De Havilland failed to do an adequate user analysis , two American companies , Boeing and Douglas , took over the commercial jet aircraft industry . |
| 12 | The men claim they were not offered new sales posts with Swithland Motors , of Mountsorrel , Leics , after it took over the Birmingham-based Colmore Group in March last year . |
| 13 | A vehicle recovery man who took away the wrecked Maestro car said : ‘ There was hardly anything left — just the number plate and part of the bumper . ’ |
| 14 | But er it certainly did a lot for the bakers but as I said it certainly took away the happy family union that we had before . |
| 15 | Again , according to Escoffier himself a Paris factory , the Maison Fontaine took up the canned tomato industry , the whole department of the Vaucluse started to specialise in the same business , and it was only after the events recorded by him that Italy and America introduced their own versions of canned tomatoes . |