Example sentences of "took [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crellin , who took over at promoted Leigh from sacked Kevin Ashcroft this summer , said : ‘ I have resigned because of boardroom interference . ’ |
| 2 | From the moment that Brian McClair , the first player Mr Ferguson signed when he took over at Old Trafford , put United ahead after 14 minutes there appeared only one winner . |
| 3 | George took over from young Joseph as the main provider . |
| 4 | But the team has responded well to caretaker-manager Allison since he took over from sacked Dennis Rofe two games ago . |
| 5 | ‘ The young one what took over from old Wilkins . ’ |
| 6 | It has a smaller than average electorate but is unlikely to prevent former barrister Stuart Bell , who took over from long-serving Arthur Bottomley in 1983 , winning . |
| 7 | The bus took off for downtown Jo'burg , followed by our small convoy of about three cars , though in the ensuing hour , every reporter in FI was shuttling back and forth between the drivers ' hotel and the circuit , where the angry bosses and the choleric Jean-Marie Balestre , president of FISA , met in angry conclave . |
| 8 | The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time . |
| 9 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |