Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 2 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 3 | He wanted someone to help him with his horses , so I took on the job . |
| 4 | He desires that you take over the keepership of the royal castle of Berwick . ’ |
| 5 | You 've got a form R eighty five which is available for bank and building society investors , and if you 've got er a gross account then er you , you have to agree with the revenue that you are not going to be a taxpayer in the year that you take out the er R eighty five . |
| 6 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 7 | It was then that we took on the giants of the Premier Division , Clutton Town , in the FA Cup . |
| 8 | Erm that was in the early days Charley and Tom did the crossing there for the mails and early in nineteen fifty one no fifty five that we took over the mails . |
| 9 | Can you just check that we took down the following . |
| 10 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 11 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 12 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 13 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 14 | At the Gloucester Forest Eyre of 1282 two of the verderers were convicted of falsifying their rolls of presentments ‘ in that they took out the names of the living , and put in the names of the dead ’ . |
| 15 | These new plants could regenerate quickly , so they took over the ecosystem . |
| 16 | In 1908 the Standard was not printing photographs and , although it took up the art form in the 1920 's and it is a curiosity to learn that the first photograph it published to do with the Club was in fact of the Opening Match , but 50 years after the event . |
| 17 | Notice that it takes on the formatting contained in the paragraph mark that follows it . |
| 18 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 19 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
| 20 | ‘ That should do now until I take out the stitches . ’ |
| 21 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 22 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 23 | A set of priorities went with the job and if you took on the job you took on the priorities . |
| 24 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 25 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 26 | If you take out the idea of the aesthetic , you 're just left with communication . |
| 27 | The two pluses are books , thanks largely to Addison Wesley , thankfully decisively so and the oil services business and the only other item worth reflecting , I think worth er , remarking on , is in fact that if you take out the black hole effect er , the entertainment fall was only two million and I think that is a creditable performance . |
| 28 | Well the the or residual element er if you take out the I have n't got this figure actually to in this little table I 've got here but if you bear with me one moment . |
| 29 | In 1948 , this became a Jewish town and we took over the building . ’ |
| 30 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |