Example sentences of "[vb past] take [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 2 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 3 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 4 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 5 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 6 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 7 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 8 | And Otis is relieved that he did take out the extra cover , because , in September in 1989 , just five months after he bought the car , he had an accident . |
| 9 | The local skateboard club voted to take down the three foot of vert and use the vert sections to make up a flat bottom . |
| 10 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 11 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 12 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 13 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
| 14 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 15 | Finnish Foreign Minister Pertti Salolainen , leading the EFTA side since Finland had taken on the rotating EFTA chairmanship on July 1 , confirmed on July 30 that the talks would restart in September . |
| 16 | Hamish had taken up the managerial place at the factory that everyone had expected would be Kenneth 's , when Kenneth had decided to teach . |
| 17 | The little cavalryman , embodiment of all the ancient martial instincts and panache of the race , had taken up the German gauntlet . |
| 18 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 19 | It was announced on May 9 that the government of Byelarus had taken over the former Soviet troops in the Byelorussian Military District . |
| 20 | As Eleanor 's husband Henry II had taken over the old claim of the Dukes of Aquitaine to be lords of Toulouse . |
| 21 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 22 | Mattan , who had taken over the yellow jersey from Lillywhite in Leicester on Saturday , started yesterday 33 seconds ahead of Lillywhite but had dropped to fourth place overall by the end of the day . |
| 23 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 24 | In November 1979 the Iranians had taken over the American Embassy in Teheran and held the staff hostage for 444 days , only releasing them 30 minutes after Carter had left office . |
| 25 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 26 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 27 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |
| 28 | Every few blocks , a building or two had been gutted , walls standing , roofs collapsed , as if random artillery shelling had taken out the commercial heart of the city , leaving a few lucky businesses to struggle on until the next round . |
| 29 | And she said take up the that A B C one . |
| 30 | ‘ We had to take out the affected computer and rent another . |