Example sentences of "[pron] take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could still be asked to leave with just one month 's notice if someone takes over the 20-year lease . |
| 2 | ‘ Shall I take out the other one ? ’ |
| 3 | Why ca n't I take back the dozen ski-holiday brochures I 'm leafing through , and be rewarded with a discount from the travel agents , and the knowledge that they 're recycling them ? |
| 4 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 5 | The management problems encountered by someone taking up a first managerial appointment in a medium-sized branch . |
| 6 | ‘ And I suppose that was the first you knew of my taking over the part ? ’ |
| 7 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 8 | Every room in the house contained some form of Bible and I took up a large ancient looking one and opened it as if it had been a door into a cave . |
| 9 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 10 | ‘ I took up a new hold at 500 feet over the pilot and was pleased to see the dinghy on the water , fully inflated , between the helicopter and the pilot — and upwind of him ! |
| 11 | I arrived at the shooting school well before the start , wearing a mackintosh , and with my umbrella up , I took up a position to watch . |
| 12 | Here I took up a position with the grand title of ‘ Consultant ’ . |
| 13 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 14 | I took up a lot of my daffs and started , erm erm I never take them up every year |
| 15 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 16 | I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’ |
| 17 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 18 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 19 | ‘ I took up the cups of coffee , five cups , and they give me only four straws , not five , ’ he explained carefully . |
| 20 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
| 21 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 22 | I got on well , and at the age of seven , I took up the violin . |
| 23 | ‘ This was where I took up the running , ’ Robert said . |
| 24 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 25 | ‘ I took up the sport six years ago when my local team , the Darlington Dawdlers , were short of a fourth rider . |
| 26 | I took up the tin with the matches in it and lit the candles ; they burned yellowly and I knelt , clenching my fists and thinking . |
| 27 | I took up the axe . |
| 28 | While my mother attempted to sort out our family finances — no easy matter with the capital , La Paz , virtually divorced from all communication — I took on a job of work for Porua . |
| 29 | ‘ I have full responsibility for fund-raising and publicity and because I took on a new post it means I am introducing my own ideas in consultation with the directors and chairman . |
| 30 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |