Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I forgot to say take out the bay leaf before it sets . |
| 2 | He thrust his hands deep into his pockets , hunching his shoulders as he continued , ‘ I met her at the party I threw to celebrate taking over control of the company . |
| 3 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 4 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 5 | The enterprise which had begun to take off in Napoleonic Paris had undoubtedly made enormous progress ; far more was known about the world than had been a generation or two earlier . |
| 6 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
| 7 | Now she was visible again , she 'd had to take off her shoes in order to walk on the glass floor without slipping , and she could n't feel her feet . |
| 8 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 9 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 10 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 11 | Sometimes I would hear conversations about the war when some of the older men in the dale came to chat and have a cup of tea in the kitchen with Uncle Tommy , who had come to take over Low Birk Hatt after Father died . |
| 12 | Proudly , they maintained peace with the white men for seventy years , until finally they became forced to take up arms , the reluctant tormentors of the US Army . |
| 13 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 14 | The Duma defied the Tsar , who suspended them , and formed a government , which they declared to have taken over all power in Russia . |
| 15 | And Arianna had been in love with him , or at least , she 'd thought she was , until he 'd begun taking over her life . |
| 16 | He seemed to have taken on a new lease of life . |
| 17 | But most of his time was now absorbed by his various inventions , which included a miniature camera , a two-sided stove , and a gramophone ; he claimed to have taken out 500 patents . |
| 18 | He had decided to take up jogging too . |
| 19 | Mick Houghton , who also works for the fashionable label Blast First , was asked why he had agreed to take on The Wedding Present . |
| 20 | He had forgotten to take off his spectacles and he peered over the top of them . |
| 21 | It seemed to Daniel that neither of them had bothered to take in , until that moment , the fact , carefully explained to both beforehand , of the other 's presence . |