Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 2 | After 1788 Baldwin took over the development of the Bathwick estate , a project conceived on the most ambitious scale . |
| 3 | Santer visited the Soviet Union on Oct. 21-24 , 1990 , shortly before the Grand Duchy took over the presidency of the European Community Council for the first half of 1991 . |
| 4 | Blind Io took up the dice-box , which was a skull whose various orifices had been stoppered with rubies , and with several of his eyes on the Lady he rolled three fives . |
| 5 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 6 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 7 | In October 1953 Khrushchev replaced Malenkov at the head of the party , and in 1955 Bulganin took over the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers . |
| 8 | The new LEAs took over the responsibility to provide adequate facilities for elementary education and in addition were authorised to provide ‘ education other than elementary ’ , either by setting up new secondary schools or by aiding existing ones in their area . |
| 9 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |