Example sentences of "took [adv] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banking involvement in the MBO scene has contracted sharply as a whole tier of European and Far Eastern banks , which took on MBO debt in the eighties because of the lucrative margins available , melted away and left the field to a handful of long-standing domestic participants such as NatWest , Barclays and Bank of Scotland . |
| 2 | Where he took on Hulk Hogan for the championship round ? |
| 3 | The idea was born from the success of the Central Scotland Association , which generated increasing interest as it took on health boards over matters as diverse as single-sex lavatories in an Edinburgh hospital to provision of extra female doctors in the village of Auchterarder . |
| 4 | THE FLOOD of refugees fleeing the escalating conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina took on crisis proportions at the weekend . |
| 5 | Government took over field supervision of the project with eager help from the USAID . |
| 6 | After dissolving his Cabinet on Jan. 30 , 1990 , President Banda appointed a new one on Feb. 23 in which former Minister of Health Edward C. I. Bwanali took over Local Government from Mfunjo Mwakikunga , who became the new Health Minister . |
| 7 | This Government in particular took away tax relief on workplace nurseries . |
| 8 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 9 | The Ayresome Park club took out insurance policies at the start of the season against the possibility of being promoted , which would mean having to pay out large players ' bonuses and salaries . |