Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] to take [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiles apologetically , as though one might find fault , and looks anxious : clearly , she 's dying for her sister to take over the conversation . |
| 2 | With its horn blaring and its lights flashing , the bus had left its route to take up the chase . |
| 3 | In 1971 the CNAA gave evidence to the James Committee expressing its willingness to take on the validation of the Teachers Certificate if there was a need for it to do so . |
| 4 | Peasants had shown themselves fully capable of organizing resistance around their traditional village institutions , and their determination to take over the nobility 's land was their own . |
| 5 | No that 's right really , I mean if you do n't know the area you do n't know which road to take on the islands . |
| 6 | In a fast moving industry they fear that , unless they are continuously involved in development work , their skills will deteriorate , and this will affect not only their future earning power , but also their ability to take on the sort of work they enjoy . |
| 7 | When in the 1880s , anxiety about the question grew more acute , and when exhortation to society members not to instruct " female learners " or to allow their daughters to take up the trade seemed to have little effect , more organized attempts were made to confront the problem . |
| 8 | She opened her bag to take out the envelope containing Elise 's account and her own cheque . |
| 9 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 10 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 11 | His refusal to take seriously the possibility of a confirmation theory , for example , can easily lead one to believe that he is closing his eyes to important normative issues . |
| 12 | In 1850 he resigned his curatorship to take up the post of mineral surveyor for New South Wales , an appointment that provoked the hostility of W. B. Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | CAMBRIDGE 'S caretaker-manager Gary Johnson is being backed by his players to take on the job full-time . |
| 14 | Sturt was just off to Adelaide with his family to take up the post of Surveyor-General of South Australia , and it was a matter of great good fortune that the two met at all . |
| 15 | Barclaycard staff have been meeting to decide what action to take over the news that the firm is cutting four hundred jobs . |