Example sentences of "[vb past] to take [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he was soaked , he actually had tried first then he went round the back , the back door was closed so he tried to take shelter under the oil tank |
| 2 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 3 | ‘ Your partner probably recognised you as the innocent you are — and tried to take advantage of the fact . |
| 4 | Four people were killed in Glina in several days of fighting which began on June 26 when Serbs tried to take control of the police station . |
| 5 | His responsibilities in Africa ended in 1962 and he moved to take control of the group 's European operations which were beginning to take off . |
| 6 | Eighteen Nottinghamshire practices were randomly selected from the family practitioner committee ( now family health services authority ) list and invited to take part in the study . |
| 7 | But in the middle of the plain of Kossovo Milosh came to take leave of the Tsar . |
| 8 | Hetty had left the shop to work in an ordnance factory soon after Sarah returned , and now to add to the misery of the two girls , Mabel went to train as an auxiliary nurse and Mrs Dyson 's sister came to take charge of the shop . |
| 9 | One of many photographers who had been lurking among the azaleas seemed to take hope at the sight of such an obviously affectionate couple and presented himself before them . |
| 10 | They had n't known her well at all , but for some inexplicable reason they seemed to take charge of the situation and to deal with it in a totally intuitive way . |
| 11 | Erm but anyway you s you started off with er with some greeting and er and er appropriate sociability erm one thing I noticed that Martin seemed to take control of the handshake and that 's something that was pointed out this morning and , and looked at and from where I was it looked as though he was keeping hold of your hand some time , you had your buyer 's guide and whatever in your other hand and you could n't , you know , bring it over and , and put yourself back into control erm and an interesting one and a , an e an example to all of us I think . |
| 12 | Residents within line of fire were evacuated from their homes and advised to take refuge at the Shuttle and Loom pub . |
| 13 | Photographers arrived to take pictures of the mail bags , and the Yorkshire TV still of Hannah inhabited the front pages for weeks . |
| 14 | She maintained that you simply stood and watched the other Girls ; this was called ‘ sitting at the side of Nellie ’ ( Nellie or Eleanor being the only daughter John allowed to take part in the business . ) . |
| 15 | The novel probably began to take shape during the autumn of 1888 , although it was not published until 1891 . |
| 16 | Luckily perhaps for those who believe in human free will , however , this was not the complete and only picture on offer when the social sciences began to take shape at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | He sees a movement away from a situation where there were extensive kin ties but a lack of really close relationships in the conjugal family , through the emergence of a family based on the patriarchal authority of the father , to a dominant form of family life which began to take shape around the middle of the seventeenth century , and was characterized by close emotional bonds between parents and children and a strong sense of privacy in the nuclear family household . |
| 18 | The urge to bake another pie began to take hold in the village towards the end of 1985 . |
| 19 | Saunders had already hit the inside of the post in the 16th minute and Atkinson had a shot from point blank range blocked by Darren Peacock when Rangers began to take control of the opening 45 minutes . |
| 20 | But as society developed , men began to take control of the world and felt their separation from it ; instead of seeing themselves as deeply identified with their environment , people became aware of the personality as perspicacious to itself and as a unique , distinct entity . |
| 21 | People began to take notice of the miner 's conditions & inspectors from the govt. came & eventually the reports reached Parliament , where Acts were passed : |
| 22 | and in 1817 on the death of the grandfather Michael Dancer , Josiah returned to take charge of the family business , moving with it to Liverpool the following year . |
| 23 | Two of these had earlier been the subject of the intensive case studies ( see Chapter 4 ) ; two had been involved in piloting the questionnaire and the head of another declined to take part in the survey on the grounds that he was just then attempting to introduce a scheme of SSE of his own devising . |
| 24 | Many schools declined to take part in the survey , however , for a variety of reasons : pressure of work , involvement in too many recent research projects and in some cases because , despite the LEA schedule , they had either not yet started on their review or had made only minimal progress . |
| 25 | In one participating practice one general practitioner declined to take part in the study and a further three were excluded — two because they had joined their practices within the previous six months and one because he left the practice during the study . |
| 26 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 27 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 28 | Hawick is one of the main centres of Scotland 's textile industry , with mills established to take advantage of the power provided by local streams and rivers . |
| 29 | Madigan 's Millions was held back from release until American International Pictures decided to take advantage of the success of Midnight Cowboy by foisting it on to the public in 1969 in a double bill with Jon Voight 's early indiscretion , Fearless Frank , also made in 1967 . |
| 30 | I warned them that d-i-yers should stop short of tampering with British Telecom 's property , but they nevertheless decided to take look inside the junction box . |