Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened the desk and slowly I took out the box and opened it . |
| 2 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 3 | Instead of throwing it away he took out the foil and smoothed it on his knee , then folded it very small and slipped it into his shirt pocket . |
| 4 | Later we take up the case of natural or pure monopoly where huge economies of scale allow only a single producer to survive in an industry . |
| 5 | Five years later he took up the project again under the new title of Church Dogmatics . |
| 6 | He began writing for Justice , the weekly paper of the SDF , which first appeared in January 1884 , and two years later he took over the editor 's position from H. M. Hyndman [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Often he takes on the legs-apart , guitar pose with Solowka mirroring his every move while massive grins threaten to slice their faces in two . |
| 8 | Today I took on the world No 1 , and that 's not easy , and beat him from the back of the court . |
| 9 | Well I took over the beginning of the year did n't I ? |
| 10 | But make sure , you know , you well you take over the house , so we know what 's in them in case they get thrown out with the bloody rubbish ! |
| 11 | Today we take on the League leaders , Gosling Celtic , and will be out to prove our Top Ten position is no fluke . |
| 12 | Then I take back the paper . |
| 13 | At first I played the bodhran drum [ he pronounced it ‘ bowran ’ ] and then I took up the guitar . |
| 14 | Then I took up the painting and carried it back here and I signed it . ’ |
| 15 | Then I took up the double bass and organ for good measure . |
| 16 | Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle . |
| 17 | Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave . |
| 18 | Then she took up the discarded tray and looked back at him where he stood now , leaning against the wall between the French windows , his silver flask of brandy open as he sipped defiantly , watching her with a black scowl on his face . |
| 19 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
| 20 | Instead it takes up the double aspect , Januslike posture of any interpretation . |