Example sentences of "[vb pp] take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former sprint champion , who built a career on the use of illegal substances , did not take part in the meeting , of course , after he was caught taking the tablets for a second time . |
| 2 | WOOD Group Fire Protection managing director Gerald Hocking was caught taking the weight off his feet on a trip to Cincinnati . |
| 3 | Kelly and a friend had enjoyed taking the dogs for walks on every day of their holiday in Dunoon . |
| 4 | There are those , however , who find it objectionable that one person should ever be permitted to take the life of another . |
| 5 | Mr Major is also expected to take the opportunity to bring a woman into his Cabinet . |
| 6 | Two of Japan 's three private satellite communications companies will probably merge to avoid excess competition against each other , Reuter reports from Tokyo , quoting a spokesman for Japan Communications Satellite Co Inc : he said that C Itoh & Co and Mitsui & Co Ltd , major shareholders in his company , have been negotiating for the merger with Nissho Iwai Corp and Sumitomo Corp , main shareholders of Satellite Japan Corp since last year because of falling orders for the services for the two groups ; Hughes Communications Co Ltd is expected to take the opportunity to sell its 30% in stake in Japan Communications Satellite and withdraw from Japan 's communications market . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , Roger , ’ he commented , ‘ you were expected to take the road to Dover whilst I was bound for Scotland . |
| 8 | CAN ANYBODY be expected to take the Deputy Director of Wirral Social Services seriously when he suggests that feeding curry to toddlers will help them counteract the evils of racism ? |
| 9 | Mr Brockwell 's expected to take the stand tomorrow . |
| 10 | Whatever the merits of alternative analyses , and however rare the 9,9 ideal may be among undoubted business leaders at the top of companies , the students are expected to take the Grid as gospel . |
| 11 | They 'd think : I know what you want , because girls are not expected to take the initiative . |
| 12 | The restlessness of industrialists at being expected to take the brunt of sacrifices had led to commercial consumers ( shops , offices , hotels , etc. ) also being brought into the load spreading arrangements in 1948 . |
| 13 | The first discovery she had made on return was that she had forgotten to take the cheesecake out of the freezer . |
| 14 | Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday . |
| 15 | I do n't trust myself and , apart from Benjamin , I certainly did n't trust anyone else yet I had forgotten to take the key down with me . |
| 16 | I was bidden take the Spear and escape . |
| 17 | It was hoped that medical men would be attracted to take the College course , and then be commissioned as veterinary surgeons in the cavalry . |
| 18 | We had a centre-half called Kitchen who specialised in sliding tackles designed to take the winger and the ball into touch . |
| 19 | The shop will be on a single floor in the central atrium of the new £27m Hallam University city centre complex — Campus 21 , designed to take the university into the 21st century . |
| 20 | The weapons bay is too small to accommodate much of a bomb : it is designed to take the AMRAAM , a new air-to-air missile that uses its own radar to hunt down and destroy enemy aircraft . |
| 21 | If they could n't get on , they put in somewhere and waited until they could , their boats designed to take the ground almost anywhere . |
| 22 | They 're designed to take the heat out of the dispute by getting the husband and wife to talk sense rather than war , especially about what happens to the kids and the money . |
| 23 | This amalgam of experience will embody itself in the final shape and fitting of a lifeboat that is designed to take the RNLI into the 21st century . |
| 24 | Novell is working on a link state routing version of its network layer protocol , IPX , designed to take the protocol into the next state of router development . |
| 25 | WORRIES over what the election result will bring make contracts designed to take the risk out of risk investment increasingly popular . |
| 26 | He watches a man arrive who , we discover , has come to take the cure at the local sanatorium . |
| 27 | The signing of its charter by representatives of 144 electric utilities with working nuclear power stations was a recognition that the time had come to take the secrecy out of nuclear power and prove that there was a worldwide interest in co-operation and information exchange . |
| 28 | Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime , and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors . |
| 29 | Tom thunders , ‘ Who the hell are you ? ’ , and I try to tell him I 'm Albert Fyles and I 've come to take the place of his regular caddie . |
| 30 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |