Example sentences of "[verb] take [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unnatural has taken over in the shape of the chain-saw and the bulldozer . |
| 2 | The more recent story of Tom Watt has taken over in the forefront of my mind . |
| 3 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 4 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 5 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 6 | There are signs that latent defects insurance , such as that recommended in the BUILD report , is beginning to take off in the insurance market . |
| 7 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |
| 8 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 9 | It really does seem to have taken off in the U.S. since its team started losing . |
| 10 | Mendoros 's enthusiasm for aviation dates , he says , from his childhood in the Sudan , when he used to get taken up in the helicopters servicing Italian-operated drilling rigs . |
| 11 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |
| 12 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 13 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 14 | Commercial farmers ( increasingly Africans who have taken over in the wake of the slow European exodus since Independence ) are still relied upon to provide the bulk of the urban demand for foodstuffs , particularly luxury items such as beef , milk , and cheese . |