Example sentences of "took [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby took over at the Manor Ground today ( WES NEXT ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It stood outside in the garden for years until John and Vera Brittain took over from the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt . |
| 6 | In October 1993 a new Centre , for Science , Technology , Energy and Environmental Policy ( CSTEEP ) took over from the DRC |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It took over from the Cortina as the best DIY car around , and its high build quality ensures public loyalty . |
| 9 | And the car took off up the North End Road before he 'd got the door shut . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I just wonder what the security was like at the base from which that plane took off in the States . ’ |