Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] take [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The Bank Action Group has vowed to take up Mr Stoller 's case .
2 The Guidance states : no decision to initiate proceedings should be taken without clear evidence that provision of services for the child and his family ( which may include an accommodation placement voluntarily arranged under s20 ) has failed or would be likely to fail to meet the child 's needs adequately and that there is no suitable person prepared to apply to take over care of the child under a residence order ( para 3.10 ) .
3 The Government has failed to take up those offers .
4 Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines , feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach .
5 In Cool Cats : 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll Style , published in the early '80s , journalist Cynthia Rose wrote : ‘ Rock music has failed to take on woman except as an idol or a target . ’
6 The familiar song seemed to have taken on an extraordinarily personal message for her .
7 But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along .
8 B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production .
9 The pilot of a Rallye had intended to take off from one field and land in another to pick up two passengers for local flying .
10 Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge .
11 But , despite such efforts , the technology has refused to take off commercially .
12 So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent .
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