Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1885 she took over the management of the embroidery section of Morris & Company , her father 's firm . |
| 2 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 3 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 4 | In 1984 he took over the occupancy of 84 acres of land near Gosforth in Tyne and Wear which was owned by the Ashdale Land and Property Company . |
| 5 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 6 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 7 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 8 | When her brothers joined up in 1914 she took over the running of the Ferry assisted by some local boys who enjoyed the good food that Mrs Stevens provided . |
| 9 | In 1958 he took over the running of the Horncastle Maltings , which , after a series of ownerships was acquired by . |
| 10 | In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades . |
| 11 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 12 | In 1951 he took on the vice-presidency of the newly formed Musician 's Organization for Peace . |
| 13 | However , in 1855 he took up the post of professor of drawing at King 's College , London , which he combined with book illustration . |
| 14 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 15 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |