Example sentences of "take off [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 2 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 3 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 4 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 5 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 6 | Liam McNamara ( a North Shore surfer riding a Willis Phazer ) took off on the first , followed by Tony Moniz ( another local ) on the second and Carroll on the third . |
| 7 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 8 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 9 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 10 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 11 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 12 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 13 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |