Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 2 | There seemed nowhere to take discussions of these dilemmas except to the conferences ' lesbian workshops , where they took up almost all the time . |
| 3 | So they entered the cheerful portals of the Jade Cockatoo , the only cafe to be found in Chetwynd , and threaded their way through a maze of small tables to an alcove by the fire , where they took off their soaking mackintoshes and warmed their hands . |
| 4 | Where he took on Hulk Hogan for the championship round ? |
| 5 | The coroner ignored it and crossed to the end of the room , where he took up his favourite position a-straddle the fireplace . |
| 6 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 7 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 8 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 9 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 10 | ‘ So I took up a hold on 210 overhead the ditched pilot using Rate 1s as crosswind and base legs . |
| 11 | I was no good at rugby so I took up rowing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 14 | He wanted someone to help him with his horses , so I took on the job . |
| 15 | Anyway , by the time Maureen went on her annual holiday , Biggles was feeding himself a bit and coming on well , so I took over . |
| 16 | ‘ He suggested it could have died another way , ’ Small recalls , ‘ so I took out a knife , skinned it on his desk , and showed him where the fox 's teeth had punctured the flesh . ’ |
| 17 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 18 | I could n't stick it and they could n't find me anywhere else , so I took off . |
| 19 | The Captain had no sooner opened his mouth to say : ‘ Your husband is n't in … ? ’ than she took out a crumpled handkerchief and huge tears were rolling down her fat cheeks . |
| 20 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 21 | Margaret Bilney of Cam in Gloucestershire cut her finger one day in 1985 , so she took off her wedding ring and put it in her purse . |
| 22 | You do n't want that to happen , so you take out an inn-sewer-ants-polly-sea . |
| 23 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 24 | Mona was quiet , hardworking and extremely stubborn , anxious to be agreeable ; but once she took up a position — or got caught in one — she was obstinately immovable and this had often brought her into conflict with Moran . |
| 25 | No , once you take over a job you take over a job . |
| 26 | But I do n't mind confessing that after a few honeymoon months we stalled more times than we took off … if you take my meaning . ’ |
| 27 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 28 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 29 | These new plants could regenerate quickly , so they took over the ecosystem . |
| 30 | Thirdly , rule-specification is a means of ‘ job enlargement ’ , a process of elaborating housework tasks so they take up endlessly increasing amounts of time . |