Example sentences of "[vb past] take [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 2 | David saw the effect his words had had on her and quickly tried to take away the sting . |
| 3 | While Carradine slept , I tried to take away the taste of defeat and Kelly 's coffee with a shot or fourteen . |
| 4 | Schladming , just to the east , which tried to take on the World Cup commitment , has suffered similarly . |
| 5 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 6 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 7 | Unions tried to take over the country . |
| 8 | According to an Army spokesman , rebel soldiers " tried to take over the airport and [ Omdurman ] radio station in a rather pathetic way " , before being overpowered by loyalist troops . |
| 9 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 10 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 11 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 12 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 13 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 14 | Benjamin 's hands positively itched to take down the leather , jewel-embossed tomes ( so did mine for other reasons ) , but Mandeville shook his head . |
| 15 | Such was the state of affairs when Ostorius Scapula arrived to take over the governorship from Aulus Plautius , that it was seen as a serious crisis . |
| 16 | She was just trying to find the right words to explain why she thought Mrs Richards would enjoy meeting Abuelo Freitas 's granddaughter , when Consuelo arrived to take over the evening shift , and the conversation switched to other matters . |
| 17 | yes because they , they fo forgot to take out the money which they could have , which erm , which would of come from privatization , which they had no intention of doing so they took that out . |
| 18 | Almost immediately the national press began taking up the campaign . |
| 19 | Wordsworth returned to his former trust in France , and thought of the British Tory government as ‘ vermin' ( Prelude 1805 , x , 655 ) ; but when the French began to take away the liberty of other countries , Wordsworth saw that there was little to choose between the French and any other conquering nation ( Prelude 1805 , x , 792 ff ) . |
| 20 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 21 | Although a late developer , it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion . |
| 22 | As August progressed , Arafat began to take on the role of Saddam 's chief ally . |
| 23 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 24 | Then , collecting her thoughts , shutting out all sound save that in her headset , she began to take down the message . |
| 25 | Although some schools were quick off the mark to evacuate their children , it was not until May 1940 when the German Wehrmacht overran Holland , Belgium and struck deep into northern France that schools in danger areas began to take seriously the need for evacuation . |
| 26 | He picked up the envelope and began to take out the sheet of paper inside . |
| 27 | Without waiting for an answer , she walked round to the boot and began to take out the luggage . |
| 28 | The only comforting thing about this was that , although they were well placed to take over my brain , they had , so far at any rate , declined to take up the offer . |
| 29 | The motorway slashed on through fields and villages without regard for either , and after a while the villages flowed together and became towns , and the towns joined and merged to take on the appearance of a city . |
| 30 | The Italians fought with great courage , especially in 1917 when they stopped a superior axis force that threatened to take over the whole of the northern part of the country . |