Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] taken the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By increasing its offer , Temple has taken the fight directly to SeaCo 's shareholders . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Murray Johnstone has taken the approach of cutting its initial charge to 1 per cent and always dealing on the full spread . |
| 3 | ‘ My bet is that Nevil has taken the girl already — maybe Dover to Folkestone . |
| 4 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 5 | Moving across the Pennines from Liverpool , Wright has taken the helm of a Polytechnic with 1200 staff , 8000 students from 35 different countries and an annual income of around £30 million . |
| 6 | And if you 've got any money left er the calendars and diaries Brenda has taken the names today and the money at the same time when you order . |
| 7 | Thomson has taken the issue further , arguing that many twentieth-century writers on social welfare issues have been misled into believing that recent developments represent an abrupt break with historical experience because of the peculiarly restrictive and individualistic support systems for elderly people that emerged in the late Victorian period . |
| 8 | Now the referee 's given it and what we reckon here is Rozario 's taken the free kick to Gemmell but Gemmell is now offside . |
| 9 | Short has taken the example of the Soviet chess school , where an uncompromising will to win takes precedence . |
| 10 | ‘ Phar-Mor has taken the illogical and outrageous action of suing Coopers in a blatant attempt to twist the truth , avoid responsibilities for their own actions and shift the blame from themselves , ’ said the firm . |
| 11 | Nissan has taken the whole thing one step further with its series of weird and cute limited production models . |
| 12 | Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home . |
| 13 | So far , however , Liffe has taken the modest route of allowing access to APT through any authorised carrier , such as Telerate , with whom agreement was announced yesterday . |
| 14 | After the dying Stepan Verkhovensky has taken the sacrament he says ‘ however , tomorrow — Tomorrow we shall all set off . ’ |
| 15 | KOP legend Ray Kennedy has taken the heartbreaking decision to sell his prized collection of soccer memorabilia . |
| 16 | The FA has taken the extraordinary step of bringing the clubs to book because of the tightrope football is walking between the laws of the game and the law of the land . |
| 17 | It 's not the first time that Wimpey has taken the lead in Scotland . |
| 18 | erm Rusty in the fact that erm we have n't been able to sort of erm get out on the field with a ball in our hand , erm but erm our coach erm Ian McMillan has taken the opportunity to drag us into the gym and give us quite erm hard fitness sessions , so the fitness is still erm quite high on our side , but erm handling the ball will be a little bit rusty , but hopefully this week , now all the snow 's gone , we 'll be able to get out and erm move the ball about at training . |
| 19 | Bob has taken the plunge & acquired a video recorder — masquerading as my birthday present to him . |
| 20 | Any Dinda 's taken the camera . |
| 21 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 22 | The new fields into which Mr Reuter has taken the group since the mid-1980s — aerospace , electricals and financial services — are either yielding little or are deep in the red . |
| 23 | Realising that an individually tailored , quality service at a competitive cost could no longer be fully satisfied by a traditional branch network , Midland has taken the unique step of establishing 13 District Service Centres ( DSCs ) to process cheques centrally . |
| 24 | Shirley Robertson has taken the slot in the Europe dinghy while Penny Way was pre-selected for the woman 's Lechner sailboard . |
| 25 | Hugh Tait has taken the lead in trying to distinguish between fact and fiction when it comes to fakes and forgeries . |
| 26 | More recent work from Samir Amin , Rana Kabbani and Linda Nochlin has taken the consciousness-raising further . |
| 27 | The Princess of Wales has taken the rare step of issuing a statement on recent newspaper reports about her relationship with the Queen . |
| 28 | Thomas has taken the outré directors Oshima and Bertolucci in hand , and presented them in a more ‘ respectable ’ form . |
| 29 | Leo Castelli has taken the occasion of all this Guggenmania to mount a show exploring plans for two of the other projected Guggenheims those for Bilbao , Spain , and for Salzburg , Austria . |