Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I bin asked to take over the choir like , for the concert , play the organ … . ’ |
| 2 | And I 've decided to take up riding again . |
| 3 | I 've got to take up a new attitude with him . |
| 4 | Now she was visible again , she 'd had to take off her shoes in order to walk on the glass floor without slipping , and she could n't feel her feet . |
| 5 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 6 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 7 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 8 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 9 | Simon Bond of NYNEX explained : ‘ When we won the cable television franchise , we were given the right to provide a telephone service , which we have decided to take up . |
| 10 | Proudly , they maintained peace with the white men for seventy years , until finally they became forced to take up arms , the reluctant tormentors of the US Army . |
| 11 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 12 | People in business are often so pleased to obtain credit finance that they ignore the true nature of the obligations they have agreed to take on . |
| 13 | He sees Ecstasy largely in terms of the market place : ‘ Professional criminals have realised there is money to be made and over two years they have managed to take over the market . |
| 14 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 15 | And Arianna had been in love with him , or at least , she 'd thought she was , until he 'd begun taking over her life . |
| 16 | He had decided to take up jogging too . |
| 17 | Mick Houghton , who also works for the fashionable label Blast First , was asked why he had agreed to take on The Wedding Present . |
| 18 | He had forgotten to take off his spectacles and he peered over the top of them . |
| 19 | It seemed to Daniel that neither of them had bothered to take in , until that moment , the fact , carefully explained to both beforehand , of the other 's presence . |