Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] took [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So her waking hours took on a new format . |
| 2 | Salomea was at the Cadby Nursery when , at short notice , several refugee nurses took up the chance of emigrating to America . |
| 3 | Interestingly though , whereas physical abuse investigations took up a substantial amount of home visit time , the sexual abuse investigations were heavy on office interview time . |
| 4 | The committee men took on a new authority . |
| 5 | By the early twentieth century German ornithologists took over the leading role , pioneering the use of ringing as a technique for tracing bird movements . |
| 6 | This was the May Bank holiday scene at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire last year , as 20,000 New Age Travellers took over the ancient common . |
| 7 | So the chain stores took up the challenge . |
| 8 | When Aerial Arts , the original manufacturers , ceased trading in serious debt to Cyclone Hovercraft , the Rotax agents , Cyclone Air Sports took over the rights to the Chaser . |
| 9 | The government forces took up a position near Tranent , ten miles [ 16 km ] east of Edinburgh , just inland from the village of Prestonpans on the Firth of Forth . |
| 10 | Haslemere Border road runners took on a windy and hilly course at Cranleigh last Sunday . |
| 11 | However , the golf reports took on a new look when supplied by Jack Webb in the two or three years before his death . |