Example sentences of "and [pers pn] take [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
| 2 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 3 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 4 | In 1948 , this became a Jewish town and we took over the building . ’ |
| 5 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 6 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 7 | And that 's an it 's an ideal display see the mechanics working and they take out the cage and off you go . |
| 8 | He did not see any sign of the runaway animals but later on that night the local policeman called on him and he took over the task of keeping a look out . |
| 9 | He was , nevertheless , elected to the see of the Auvergne , and he took over the administration of the diocese . |
| 10 | In 1747 , Stukeley could stand Stamford no longer and he took up the living of St. George 's in Bloomsbury , London , thus ending his associations with the town . |
| 11 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 12 | And he took out the keys and threw them onto the bonnet . |
| 13 | The bottom end of the rope was fixed to the back of the van and it took up the slack and held the tree in tension to give the saw ease of movement . |