Example sentences of "he take [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 2 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 3 | And that , he hopes , will enable him to take over the top ten ratings the Yorkshireman holds with two of the four recognised world governing bodies the WBO and WBC . |
| 4 | ( Given this prestige , it would he unseemly for him to take on a menial local job . ) |
| 5 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 6 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |
| 7 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 8 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 9 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 10 | He takes out a Danish pastry . |
| 11 | He took over a small department and greatly expanded it , planning a large new building , which ensured further expansion . |
| 12 | He took over a disused , ill-equipped brewery at St. James Gate , on a 9,000 year lease at an annual rent of just £45 . |
| 13 | He took over an existing but derelict blast furnace at Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) which had been set up in 1638 , and in 1709 he discovered the method of smelting iron with coke instead of charcoal . |
| 14 | Smith dismissed speculation he would recruit former Middlesbrough coach David Nish as his right hand man if he took over the hot seat . |
| 15 | When " Reggie " Hughes left , he took over the full teaching of art ii , the school . |
| 16 | He took over the White Horse Hotel in Thirsk until it closed in 1961 . |
| 17 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) reduced corporation tax to 35 per cent. , but at the same time he took away the 100 per cent . |
| 18 | After serving as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Paris , he took up a new job in Berlin on the very day in 1930 when the Reichstag election heralded unprecedented barbarism in Europe . |
| 19 | In 1873 he took up a similar appointment with the Great Eastern Railway . |
| 20 | In 1978 he took up a Senior Registrar post in Diabetes at the General Hospital , Birmingham , and in 1981 his present post as Consultant Physician at Dudley Road Hospital , Birmingham . |
| 21 | They were n't able to give him this so he took up a reciprocal heading and dropped down to 2,000 ‘ ft ‘ and eventually found Humberside — all the time trying to figure out what had gone wrong . |
| 22 | Instead he took up a lucrative coaching post with the Botswana Youth team . |
| 23 | He took up the remote controller and did the ever-popular ‘ Channel Hop ’ . |
| 24 | They walked round all day with their heads slumped between their shoulders like this ’ — he took up the appropriate attitude — ‘ instead of like this , as the British do . ’ |
| 25 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 26 | He took up the daily routine of his swim again , and one afternoon when he was in the sea there was a visit to the bungalow by Timothy Gedge . |
| 27 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 28 | He took on a strange , thoughtful expression . |
| 29 | Venables , who freely admits he took on a huge financial burden for his 22 per cent stake , is alleged to want more say on the financial side , but Sugar prefers him to concentrate on coaching . |
| 30 | In order to survive , he took on a few composition pupils , including the daughter of the Duc de Guines , who was an outstanding flautist and harpist . |