Example sentences of "[vb past] taken [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
| 4 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hamish had taken up the managerial place at the factory that everyone had expected would be Kenneth 's , when Kenneth had decided to teach . |
| 7 | The little cavalryman , embodiment of all the ancient martial instincts and panache of the race , had taken up the German gauntlet . |
| 8 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 9 | As Eleanor 's husband Henry II had taken over the old claim of the Dukes of Aquitaine to be lords of Toulouse . |
| 10 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |