Example sentences of "[noun sg] took [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coalition took over from the Vietnam-backed Hun Sen government which rescued Kampuchea after the demise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1979 . |
| 2 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 3 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 4 | And the car took off up the North End Road before he 'd got the door shut . |
| 5 | Something glassy and indistinct passed over Rincewind 's head , throwing up a cloud of ashes from the fire , and the pig carcass took off from the spit and rocketed into the sky . |
| 6 | In Europe the craze for motoring took off in the twenties and thirties , helped in 1931 by the launching of the first cross-Channel ferry specifically designed to carry cars and their passengers . |
| 7 | Jeremy joined us as a Fellow of the Association with a long and distinguished career in the industryand took over at the helm of a dedicated and well-motivated teamat Trinity Road . |
| 8 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 9 | He dashed into the nearest shop doorway at the cab took off from the kerb again and accelerated away down the street . |
| 10 | Taking their lead from the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ of American journalism , a more colourful , gossipy style of writing took over from the rather self-consciously poetic late Victorian style with its ‘ hapless custodians ’ and ‘ leather spheroids ’ . |
| 11 | no father took off for the hills |
| 12 | His assistant took over behind the counter and proceeded to inflict the continuing stories of her friends and enemies in the buildings on the dockers and carmen . |
| 13 | The 38 lenders are also thought to have been told that trading is worse than at any time since the current owner took over in the late 1980s . |
| 14 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
| 15 | British Aerospace took over from the Minstry of Defence and the work reduced . |
| 16 | Ever since the Pill took over from the sheath in availability and popularity , the onus of responsibility has fallen even more heavily on women . |
| 17 | Our link with Civil Affairs Service ( Burma ) in Delhi was Colonel Leslie Glass , and plans were so laid that when the civil government took over from the military , there should be an easy transition from the initial operation under the military . |
| 18 | I just wonder what the security was like at the base from which that plane took off in the States . ’ |
| 19 | She nearly dropped the mug but her brain took over at the last instant . |
| 20 | This is where systems technology took over from the tools , and the change of emphasis may prove to have been programmed learning 's greatest gift to education . |
| 21 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |
| 22 | Professor Breen has suggested that the American consumer market took off in the 1740s . |