Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Parkinson takes over from the Rev. Tony Smailes , who began his new job as vicar of St. Cuthbert 's in Ormesby on Sunday . |
| 2 | and rowing for gold all this week will be the best oarsmen … young and old … from all over the world as the royal regatta takes off on the Thames at henley … we 'll be on the water tomorrow night to look ahead with the fastest school crew in the country |
| 3 | ‘ If it takes off in the States , the sky 's the limit , ’ he says . |
| 4 | The 1990s saw Japan take over from the US as the world 's dominant power . |
| 5 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 6 | That is not to underplay the contribution of the other members of the quartet : all are heard here in ( mainly ) Jackson compositions and all make solidly individualistic contributions in advance of the more formal direction that Lewis would take up with the MJQ . |
| 7 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 8 | Brown — formerly on the coaching staff at Chesham — took over at the Diadora League Premier Division club in December , when George Borg resigned after a disagreement over playing policy . |
| 9 | Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby took over at the Manor Ground today ( WES NEXT ) |
| 10 | As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary . |
| 11 | It stood outside in the garden for years until John and Vera Brittain took over from the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt . |
| 12 | In October 1993 a new Centre , for Science , Technology , Energy and Environmental Policy ( CSTEEP ) took over from the DRC |
| 13 | Yugoslavia was now set to get its first non-communist President when Mesic took over from the Serb Borisav Jovic in May 1991 , in accordance with the rotation sequence . |
| 14 | It took over from the Cortina as the best DIY car around , and its high build quality ensures public loyalty . |
| 15 | Telekurs AG of Zurich , Switzerland is taking over from the London Stock Exchange the professional customers of the Topic and Topicline real-time share information system : Telekurs ( UK ) Ltd will migrate customers to Topic-Plus — based on existing Telekurs services — from the middle of the year with the co-operation of the exchange . |
| 16 | The Proteo has been engineered with a view to taking over from the SZ after Zagato builds the 1000th car late next year . |
| 17 | Forte Plc has decided to resume the management of The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair , taking over from the Evan Steadman Group which was recently purchased by Reed Exhibition Companies Ltd . |
| 18 | And the car took off up the North End Road before he 'd got the door shut . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ During that interim period Doctor Who just took off with the Daleks in a way that none of us could have imagined , and after that there was no more discussion about it coming off the air . |
| 21 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | On another occasion , a cow made a mad dash from a herd being driven along Crane Bridge Road , managed to dive onto the slope leading to the old ford by the bridge , took off in the Harnham direction and swam almost a mile before the drovers caught up with her . |
| 23 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 24 | I just wonder what the security was like at the base from which that plane took off in the States . ’ |
| 25 | Nick Simmons … taking off with the AA |
| 26 | That was we were main one of the , my father seen er possibilities er when he attended the London show , he went er he , he was very much taken on with the Morris Cowley first of all . |
| 27 | Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites . |
| 28 | Presented to the Society by Mr J E Cadwallader from Capetown , South Africa - the last employee to be taken on by the Bishop 's Castle Railway . ) |
| 29 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 30 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |