Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon .
2 The Spirit comes and takes up residence in a man once he is invited in .
3 She plays Isobel Hetherington — a young woman with three daughters — who takes up residence in a seaside resort during the hot summer of 1887 .
4 In 1858 a wild rabbit takes up residence in the garden ; Gustave forbids its slaughter .
5 Initiated by the CBSO under its electrifying young conductor , Simon Rattle , it will soon receive another boost , when Sadler 's Wells Ballet takes up residence in the refurbished Hippodrome under its new name , the Birmingham Royal Ballet .
6 The investor having gone short in a security takes out insurance in the form of a purchased call whose exercise price is equal to the price at which the shares were sold .
7 MICHELOZZO , winner of the St Leger by eight lengths , will take on Nashwan in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket a week on Saturday after being supplemented for £10,000 yesterday .
8 Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over .
9 Erm if you recall in our managements ' erm in our discussions when I presented the last the last minutes of the er s the subcommittee which has purchased the ground , we agreed to erm co er co-work with two other two of the clubs sports clubs to establish a management committee , which we would then hope would take over management of the ground from the parish council .
10 The specifications will be submitted to X/Open Co Ltd for inclusion in the Portability Guide and the standards body will also take over responsibility for the publishing , trademarking and branding of Motif specifications .
11 The track index will take up part of the first track of each cylinder .
12 Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association .
13 Graduates with a specialism in Tourism and Leisure may take up employment in the management of tourism ventures , or in managing tourist flows .
14 Some essential and irreplaceable tissues , like the brain , kidney tubules , intestinal mucosa and red blood corpuscles , can take up glucose in the absence of insulin , which other tissues , notably muscles which are normally the largest consumers of glucose , need its presence .
15 It is not very clever to spray and fight off enemies from the front door , while letting them take up residence outside a wide open back door .
16 He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair .
17 The Standard commentary column enthused again about the benefits that would accrue to the town ; ‘ people of means and leisure will take up residence in the district ; it has long been said that Henley needed further attractions and the present move is assuredly one in the right direction ’ .
18 On the morrow or soon after , as our uncle of Gloucester told me , he will take up residence in the Tower . ’
19 It will take up room on the stairs , so remember that the space left for other people using the stairs will be less .
20 A further point is that I have been strongly advised that we should take out cover against the need to indemnify owners against not being able to occupy their units due to events such as fire , flood or damage by previous occupants .
21 In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle .
22 There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education .
23 Objections to the proposals essentially turn on the terms under which any devolution would take place , and the question of the competence and reliability of the organisations which would be taking on responsibility for the sites .
24 Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season .
25 The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’
26 Hilda Sturge took on responsibility for the adult refugees , while the Committee , with Greta acting as honorary secretary , looked after the children .
27 In the Cabinet changes carried out in August [ see p. 39067 ] Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis took on responsibility for the Aegean and Andreas Andrianopoulos ( hitherto Minister of Industry and Commerce ) became Minister of State , alternating as Government Spokesman with Vassilis Magginas .
28 These planes form the backbone of Brize Norton operations and Wilf ride in the cockpit as the the took on fuel from a tanker , also from Brize .
29 Reporters who approached the hotel just after dawn yesterday said there was no sign of the rebels who took over part of the hotel in the exclusive Escalon district of the capital .
30 SCOTTISH Nationalists took over part of the headquarters of one of England 's largest water companies yesterday in protest at the possible privatisation of the industry in Scotland .
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