Example sentences of "and take [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) , Lockwood plays a ruthless woman who enters the house of an old schoolfriend as a governess and takes up with the man of the house . |
| 2 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 3 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 4 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 5 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |
| 6 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 7 | Masklin grabbed the Thing and took off across the polished surface . |
| 8 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 9 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 10 | It was flown by Geoff Dodd , a company pilot : ‘ I picked up my survival suit , cleared Special Branch , and took off for the Isle of Man suited-up and wearing a life-jacket . |
| 11 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 12 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |
| 13 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 14 | At last the Stones were bundled into the building and taken up onto the roof for the promised interview . |
| 15 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 16 | The trend was started by The Independent , and taken up by The Guardian , more for commercial reasons than as a principled stand . |
| 17 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 18 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 19 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 20 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 21 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 22 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 23 | Any points similar to these which arise from any section of the application form/c.v. should be noted and taken in to the interview as a reminder . |
| 24 | ‘ The parcels are collected during the day by one of our franchisees and taken back to the depot . |
| 25 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 26 | The first one will keep the rope taut as you move offstage and run round the back and take over from the second helper who has been keeping the ‘ load ’ end taut . |
| 27 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 28 | The position of the runway and the topography of the island means that planes normally land and take off over the sea . |
| 29 | Picture them , Tabitha Jute and Marco Metz , as they walk out across the spaceport tarmac this chilly Schiaparelli evening , to climb aboard the not-quite-redeemed Alice and take off into the Martian sky , bound on a journey that will take them to Plenty — and far , far beyond . |
| 30 | The time-travellers manage to escape from the Aridians and take off in the TARDIS , but the Dalek time-ship is in hot pursuit . |