Example sentences of "[adv] take [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took over the financial reins three weeks before the end of the financial year ! |
| 2 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 4 | There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself . |
| 5 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 6 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 7 | The linking of the elements thus takes on the only allowable form of " one-to-many " . |
| 8 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 9 | When he returned to England from Calcutta , which he did as soon as he was well enough to travel , he did not take up the glorious and interesting life that was waiting for him there , as one would have expected . |
| 10 | It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 11 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 12 | It also integrated the supply of electricity into the national grid curtailing and , in 1987 , finally taking over the only independent Palestinian energy supplier , the Jerusalem Electricity Company . |
| 13 | Whether it 's because they feel they 're not taking up the valuable time of a doctor , they can go at their own pace , who knows ? |
| 14 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 15 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |
| 16 | And then , you can always take out the extra insurance with er , no but it is n't very much for a tumble-drier , for five years and there 's no problems that way . |
| 17 | I 'll know it 'll be he who 'll end up cassandring me , precisely in nomansland where the male gods will ever take over the pythian oracles , turning them into twittering spokespersons . |
| 18 | Orwell has left us with a graphic description of a typical reader , the elderly lady who always took out the same books , year-in year-out — a thing not possible incidentally in today 's rapid-turnover public libraries — with the word , ‘ I do love a drop of Dell ! ’ referring to the popular writer Ethel M. Dell . |
| 19 | She joined the Boat Race squad last January and quickly took over the Blue boat . |
| 20 | In recent years the seedsmen and the chemical companies ( the latter are rapidly taking over the former ) have been producing new varieties of hybrid seeds , fertilizers , herbicides , pesticides , and fungicides , which together have made continuous monocropping feasible . |
| 21 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 22 | Only then could the new prime minister formally take up the vast burden of his office . |
| 23 | Level Three , on the other hand , is an entirely different kettle of fish as Rambo , strapped into the seat of a stolen tank , single-handedly takes on the entire Soviet Army . |
| 24 | People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle . |
| 25 | WEU also took over the social and cultural responsibilities outlined in the Brussels Treaty , but since most of the original military functions had become redundant with the creation of NATO , it was decided that WEU could perform best by being directly incorporated within the broader defence alliance . |
| 26 | Nafissa Lalliam was replaced as Health Minister by Mohammed Salah Mentouri , who also took over the Social Affairs portfolio but another woman , Anissa Benameur entered the Cabinet as Minister for Vocational Training and Employment , replacing Mohammed Bonmahrat . |
| 27 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
| 28 | In her room , she sat on the bed and opening her travelling bag carefully took out the satin-lined box . |
| 29 | In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them . |
| 30 | The great drive for respectability , which was led by the trade papers and various film industry organizations , really took over the whole publicity campaign and again became almost a defining characteristic of British and especially American cinema . |