Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the ties seem to need taking out . |
| 2 | Despite an increasing amount of intermarriage , few Koreans have wished to take up the option of naturalization , difficult enough to achieve in itself . |
| 3 | I am pleased that the parents of pupils at those schools have voted to take up this option for their schools . |
| 4 | Now Dan seemed to have taken over . |
| 5 | Her husband may have died soon after 1649 , for in the early 1650s Katherine appears to have taken over his haberdashery business . |
| 6 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 7 | He is aiming at 100 stores , has added extra warehousing space and has even ( briefly ) considered expanding into eastern Europe , an idea he has since gone cool on : ‘ I was interested in Prague , but the Germans seem to have taken over . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
| 9 | The Bank Action Group has vowed to take up Mr Stoller 's case . |
| 10 | ‘ There were four major air disasters last year , all four planes involved having taken off from airports which were regarded as having maximum security . |
| 11 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 12 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 13 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 14 | The Guidance states : no decision to initiate proceedings should be taken without clear evidence that provision of services for the child and his family ( which may include an accommodation placement voluntarily arranged under s20 ) has failed or would be likely to fail to meet the child 's needs adequately and that there is no suitable person prepared to apply to take over care of the child under a residence order ( para 3.10 ) . |
| 15 | The evening visit of Hilary Seymour-Strachey seemed to have taken on a very different character to the afternoon one of his brother and sister-in-law . |
| 16 | My feelings seem to have taken over . |
| 17 | Dempsey had tried to take on two dogs that he knocked out his tooth . |
| 18 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |
| 19 | It was as if the hunt for Lucy Ashdown had spread to take over his world from one horizon to the other and everything else , every essential concern and unanswered question , had been crowded out at the edges . |
| 20 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 21 | Then the brass plaques tend to get taken off and happens where a stone remains . |
| 22 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 23 | But then , what if Siward had tried to take over Scotia ? ’ |
| 24 | The Government has failed to take up those offers . |
| 25 | Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines , feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach . |
| 26 | In Cool Cats : 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll Style , published in the early '80s , journalist Cynthia Rose wrote : ‘ Rock music has failed to take on woman except as an idol or a target . ’ |
| 27 | The familiar song seemed to have taken on an extraordinarily personal message for her . |
| 28 | But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along . |
| 29 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 30 | As more and more material was uncovered , the interest of students of both Old and New Testaments had extended to take in increasingly large tracts of the surrounding fields , and to seek to locate the biblical material in that broader setting . |