Example sentences of "[adv] take [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This selection obviously takes in the period of purely sailing ships , through hybrids to the fully powered vessels of the mid-20th century . |
| 2 | This walk not only takes in the lovely moorland around the Doone Valley it also runs along the shady woodland paths on the banks of the East Lyn river . |
| 3 | Better take off the headphones . |
| 4 | First to go was a rather nervous Richard Crout with Jesse , a 1908 steam roller , belching out smoke he gingerly took to the roads . |
| 5 | The leaders of Eastern religions which had resisted the appearance of the railway , as in China and Japan , soon found that their co-religionists swiftly took to the rails to visit temples and shrines . |
| 6 | The truth is , few people believe that revelations are going to be made to them in dreams — and even on the rare occasions that an individual really felt a dream was of overwhelming " significance " , the so-called dream-books could only taken in the most gullible . |
| 7 | The claim was consistent with other measures apparently taken by the elder Kim to secure the succession of his son , including the appointment in December of Kim Jong Il as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces . |
| 8 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 9 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 10 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 11 | That fruit , impetuously taken in the Garden , brought untold ruin . |
| 12 | But I was especially taken with the single ‘ White Bird 's Egg ’ , a pure white with faint pink spots . |
| 13 | But I do remember Sterland giving an interview before the final saying that he was basically taken to the cleaners by the boy . |
| 14 | Even Abraham Farrar , pointed out by oralists as the most exalted example of their method of teaching , showed concern that oralism was being carried to too great an extreme at the expense of education but this concern fell on ‘ deaf ’ ears of those in teaching establishments though perhaps not that of Dr. Eichholz the Government inspector for the overseeing of deaf education , as the two extracts opposite taken from the logbook of the Hugh Bell School , Middlesbrough , show . |
| 15 | The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand . |
| 16 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 17 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 18 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 19 | Marvell is so much taken with the love he has of nature he even proposes to cut out the names of the trees in their own bark , as opposed to the names of lovers . |
| 20 | Fabia exclaimed , instantly very much taken with the idea . |
| 21 | The speaker was much taken by the Lesothans . |
| 22 | James , who would in 1932 , publish a biography of Cipriani , was much taken by the personality of this man who , with his organised labour movement posed a real threat to the colonial authorities . |
| 23 | As he is something of a carpenter ( he built his own sail boat for use on the Chesapeake ) , he found it simple enough to take off the right-angled corners and substitute curves . |
| 24 | For just a few seconds , Lucinda hesitated ; for just long enough to take in the shock of white hair , the lined , weather-worn face and the tremendous size of him . |
| 25 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 26 | For ‘ 92 we 're pleased to announce a new series of three night tours that not only take in the famous castle and village of Colditz , but also a good slice of what was until recently East Germany . |
| 27 | our final fling tonight takes to the sport of judo … this weekend Oxford staged the all England Championships . |
| 28 | My 12 × 40 binoculars will just take in the two Pointers to Polaris , Merak and Dubhe , which are 5 degrees of arc apart ; the 7 × 50 pair will contain them very easily , while , naturally , 20 × 70 will not . |
| 29 | This was the part that Wilson largely took in the final , becoming a ‘ great spoiler ’ , as the Examiner put it . |
| 30 | She scarcely took in the bloody mass that was a face . |