Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] took [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London , Eden fell sick and Churchill took over the Foreign Officer , He gave final permission for what the British called Operation Boot to proceed , ( To the CIA it was Operation Ajax ) Churchill sent an even stronger message encouraging the Shah to act against Mossadeq . |
| 2 | Gerhard Schürer 's post as Chair of the State Planning Commission was abolished and Grünheid took over the new position of Chair of the Economic Committee . |
| 3 | They did little , however , and Grubb took over the ride again last November , but has taken him to only a few shows , mostly indoor , in which Ever has been extremely consistent . |
| 4 | Then and there my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound . |
| 5 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 6 | She paused for breath and Giles took up the tale . |
| 7 | In the fifteen months Since Paul and Wayne took over the roles they 've seen the audience grow and get younger with children as young as four who 've seen the repeats joining the audience … |
| 8 | Not only was there no chance of seeing Karen , but Trish and Brian took over the house with heavy hints about housework that needed doing or how if only the back garden was cleared we could plant organic vegetables . |
| 9 | as if she had had a signal from the Chief Superintendent , Sergeant Henley subsided and Coffin took over the questioning . |
| 10 | And Andrew took over the business . ’ |
| 11 | Miki and Chris took up the challenge from the Jim Rose Travelling Circus to drink the bile ! |
| 12 | But if the Earl was detached from them , in Berwick Castle , and Fraser took over the Warden 's duties here , then the proportion would probably increase . |
| 13 | Gradually , wool clothiers , merchants and hosiers took over the work formerly done by the monks . |
| 14 | In 1895 , when James Kilpatrick was 31 years of age , his uncle died and James took over the stud . |
| 15 | In their hands , structural anthropology and semiology took on the study of the structural form of meaningful systems . |
| 16 | The sale was first mooted last October , but Hanson took out the injunction after Costain later announced it was concluding a sale with Altus , a venture-capital subsidiary of Credit Lyonnais , the French bank . |