Example sentences of "took [adv prt] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he did the actual stitching , Shelley took over the grip on the tourniquet , until the skin was pulled together , and she was able to give the whole area a good wipe of iodine , before putting a clean dry dressing on the hand . |
| 2 | A film crew took over the station on Tuesday , June 30 — the last opportunity before the railway 's daily running season began to film sequences of the cast alighting from a train and leaving the station in Pop 's famous Rolls Royce car . |
| 3 | But while Pygmalion ( 1938 ) had been directed by the reliable Asquith , Pascal himself took over the reins on Major Barbara ( 1941 ) . |
| 4 | But Pubmaster quickly took over the lease on the Greenside to ensure an early re-opening . |
| 5 | When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile . |
| 6 | Only occasionally was there any doubt that they would win , however , particularly as David Phillips , who took over the kicking on the early retirement of Brian Bolderson , kicked only one of four penalty chances for Newport . |
| 7 | Mr Foster , who took up the issue on behalf of farmers and operators , said : ‘ I am deeply disappointed that the Intervention Board has not accepted the strong arguments put forward in favour of the facility . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 9 | Living through the post-Darwinian debates , he invariably took up the cudgels on behalf of scientific rationalism . |
| 10 | Not long after Mrs Bloomer 's crusade , the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort . |
| 11 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 12 | From 1927 onwards , as the consequences of Eliot 's baptism into the Anglican church showed up in the imagery of ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , ‘ A Song for Simeon ’ , ‘ Animula ’ , and most conspicuously ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ( 1930 ) , Tate , open to the solicitations of Christian belief , took up the running on Eliot 's behalf from the non-believer Wilson . |
| 13 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 14 | Paul Owen has was appointed Director of the BCU and took up the post on February 17th . |
| 15 | Meetings between the military commanders of all three factions in Bosnia at Sarajevo airport on Oct. 23 and Oct. 26 , chaired by the new UNPROFOR commander Philippe Morillon ( who took up the post on Sept. 30 ) , failed to halt the fighting . |
| 16 | Jim took up the slack on his own chain and four others , like the Casting-Master almost naked except for a blackened leather apron and tight-fitting skull cap , pulled and cursed the liquid iron on its descent to the earth . |
| 17 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 18 | We took out the 1-iron on the tee . |
| 19 | Duroc took out the file on Jessamyn Bonney , and slipped off the electronic seal . |