Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Dan seemed to have taken over . |
| 2 | Her husband may have died soon after 1649 , for in the early 1650s Katherine appears to have taken over his haberdashery business . |
| 3 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 4 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
| 5 | All these activities suddenly came to an end when Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists after the USSR had tried to take over the KMT . |
| 6 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 7 | Williams had gone to take up a post at Howard University , where at the age of 28 , he began what would become a meteoric rise through the halls of academia , ( Associate Professor in 1946 , at the age of 35 ) . |
| 8 | The evening visit of Hilary Seymour-Strachey seemed to have taken on a very different character to the afternoon one of his brother and sister-in-law . |
| 9 | Dempsey had tried to take on two dogs that he knocked out his tooth . |
| 10 | It was as if the hunt for Lucy Ashdown had spread to take over his world from one horizon to the other and everything else , every essential concern and unanswered question , had been crowded out at the edges . |
| 11 | Victoria had been playing gin rummy with her , and Shelley had come to take over . |
| 12 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 13 | But then , what if Siward had tried to take over Scotia ? ’ |
| 14 | Scottish Roman Catholic priest James Morrow has pledged to take out a private prosecution for murder against the doctors . |
| 15 | As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence . |
| 16 | Although Warwick had not held Skipton itself , he had had connections with some of the local families ( perhaps through his possession of the Clifford estates elsewhere ) and these Gloucester seems to have taken over . |
| 17 | Although Warwick had not held Skipton itself , he had had connections with some of the local families ( perhaps through his possession of the Clifford estates elsewhere ) and these Gloucester seems to have taken over . |