Example sentences of "took [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the extent to which the family took on responsibility from other institutions for the poor , the sick , the old and the unemployed . |
| 2 | Thomson underwent an MMC investigation when it took over Horizon in 1989 , but was cleared . |
| 3 | Toton took over responsibility for all Railfreight Coal traction used in the Midlands , North West , Yorkshire and North East districts , comprising some 250 locomotives of Classes 20 , 56 and 58 . |
| 4 | After the 1974 reorganisation , the new regional health authorities took over responsibility for all hospital and community health expenditure . |
| 5 | Shreeves was sacked and Doug Livermore and Ray Clemence took over responsibility for first-team affairs . |
| 6 | Known as mamluks ( an Arabic term meaning " owned " ) this army raised in the slave markets of the Caucasus and beyond , took over power in 1250 at a time of Mongol threat from the east . |
| 7 | He trained as an engraver but took up work with deaf people and became their missioner in Paisley , Scotland . |
| 8 | The troops gathered the Croats in the Franciscan monastery on Tuesday after Muslims overran the area and took up position on all sides . |
| 9 | Two hundred thousand American women took up golf in 1981 bringing the total of female golfers to 3.4 million in the United States . |
| 10 | She took up guitar at seven , gave her first recital at nine , her first concerto at 10 , her first radio broadcast at 14 , won an international guitar competition at 17 , and has continued to pick up awards and critical plaudits on her chosen instrument . |
| 11 | We have two women Equal Opportunities Officers who took up post in early September . |
| 12 | we rehearsed it and we rehearsed it and I mean I did n't mind they were paying the bill for and I literally with a college took up residence for several days before it in a local hotel and we went through it in every fine detail |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend accept , however , that among pensioners , particularly those who took up residence in sheltered accommodation after 1988 , there is a real fear of injustice , in that some of them have to pay the full licence and some of them do not ? |