Example sentences of "[verb] taken [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Fox , father of Richard and Rachel , has taken over as the new Chairman . |
| 2 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps the leader 's parent has taken over under the stress of pressure , on the one hand from top management to complete the project and on the other from the follower for promotion , thus breaking up the team . |
| 4 | HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company . |
| 5 | In the Auvergne , the major agriculture/conservation conflict is clearly in the plains , especially the extensive limagne north of Clermont , where intensive cereal and crop production has taken over from a former bocage ( hedge and pasture ) landscape . |
| 6 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 7 | Saints will be fired up under new boss John McClelland , who has taken over from the sacked Alex Totten . |
| 8 | The Norther Woodworking and DIY Exhibition has taken over from the Northern exhibition that was held annually , later in the year , in Leeds and at Calderdale . |
| 9 | It has taken over from the Appeal committee the task of raising money to support the teaching of Law in Somerville . |
| 10 | The Hand of Gooch has taken over from the Hand of God Maradona 's — in sporting legend . |
| 11 | The unnatural has taken over in the shape of the chain-saw and the bulldozer . |
| 12 | The more recent story of Tom Watt has taken over in the forefront of my mind . |
| 13 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 14 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 15 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 16 | Cowslip seemed taken aback for a moment . |
| 17 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 18 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 19 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 20 | You simply get taken along by the system , people crowding around you , the press anxious for interviews . |
| 21 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 22 | Dozens of men with hand tools may have taken up to a year to dig out the brook banks and build arches and canal on top . |
| 23 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 24 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 25 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 26 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 27 | Suggestions that some representative element be added to the government , an idea which very few people would have taken seriously before the 1750s , were now being put forward . |
| 28 | Mrs Diggory looked taken aback for a moment , but she took the hand and then ushered the lady inside , talking all the while . |
| 29 | Those got taken up with a lot of promotional work , and in my case I found that charities got in touch with me a lot to open fetes , attend jumble sales , etc . |
| 30 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |