Example sentences of "[verb] taken [adv prt] [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 | 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 |
| 17 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 18 | You simply get taken along by the system , people crowding around you , the press anxious for interviews . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 23 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They seem to have taken over from the large black dogs with glowing red eyes to be found in most local folklore collections . |
| 27 | It really does seem to have taken off in the U.S. since its team started losing . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | used to get told to go out in the Autumn and we used to get told by the , used to get taken out by the teacher into some woods and you would have to collect the leaves . |
| 30 | ‘ Instead of selling the offices which we 've taken over in the village , you could use them as a workshop and studio , ’ he suggested . |