Example sentences of "[verb] to take [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annual General Meetings are attended by several thousand employee shareholders and ( in contrast to the normally sedate company AGM in some discreet City hall ) NFC has to take over the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham or the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 2 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 3 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left . |
| 5 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 6 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 7 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 8 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 9 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 10 | IF ever there was a horse perfectly equipped to take on the best it 's Bradbury Star . |
| 11 | At the same time , the bladder becomes less able to sterilise urine and the urine is less concentrated , so more fluids are needed to take away the same amount of waste ( see incontinence , pages 70 to 76 ) . |
| 12 | Take away one twelfth okay just write that down that you 've got to take away the one twelfth . |
| 13 | ‘ They 're hunting Burythorpe way today , ’ she said — Nora , who claimed to take not the slightest interest in anything the Lord Middleton 's did ! |
| 14 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 15 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 16 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 17 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 18 | Very limited entrepreneurial ambitions , conspicuous consumption and a tendency to spread their thin investments over many ventures [ the ‘ group of companies ’ mentality ] , a tendency … to only scratch the surface of innovation , the aversion to teaming up with others , all these and other motivational factors are likely to continue to limit the growth of Nigerian enterprises even in those spheres which are exclusively reserved to them and to postpone the day when they may hope to take over the higher reaches of enterprise . |
| 19 | Either the compromises begin and records become more accessible , or the band leaves the label , usually by virtue of being dropped or , in contract parlance , the record company failing to take up the next year 's option . |
| 20 | There were reports of Diana playing tricks on Charles too — changing jackets with a friend , so he would attempt to take home the wrong woman ; and there were reports that he spent his evenings at home in the chalet while Diana danced the night away with friends in a disco . |
| 21 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 22 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 23 | Football , and Swindon manager Glenn Hoddle has denied rumours that he 's been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 24 | Do n't forget to take up the READY position after signalling each word . |
| 25 | In his press release the Secretary of State says : ’ Many of the new measures are designed to protect children from being influenced to take up the deadly habit of smoking . ’ |
| 26 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 27 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 28 | Plants had already seeded in crevices around the foundations , preparing to take over the instant man 's will failed . |
| 29 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 30 | If we 're confident that you can afford to take on the extra commitment , we 're quite happy to agree a second loan . |