Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] took [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used ceremonial occasions to launch scathing attacks on conservatives and took on the role of the spokesman of all Hungarians , inside and outside the country . |
| 2 | The doctor arrived within minutes and took over the resuscitation attempts . |
| 3 | Most of his other property was left to John Williamson , who worked with Furber during his later years and took over the Kensington nursery , which was maintained by a succession of gardeners until the late 1840s . |
| 4 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 5 | He moved back to the chest of drawers and took down the photograph of Tatyana Nowak and her husband on Westminster Bridge . |