Example sentences of "took [adv prt] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took on the alias in a bid to avoid publicity when dealing with her solicitor Paul Butner . |
| 2 | His son , Claude , took over the mill in 1952 and is still at the helm . |
| 3 | In 1840 Thomas Wilkins , who was at the time running a successful baking business , took over the mill in the centre of Bourton then known as Lower Valley Water Mills . |
| 4 | They took over the mill in Bourton in 1840 , other members of the family running Lower Slaughter . |
| 5 | The real essence of ‘ Thatcherism ’ , indeed , lay not so much in its ideas , which proved to be increasingly malleable as the years went by , and especially when Nigel Lawson took over the Treasury in 1984 . |
| 6 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 7 | In 1166 he marched on the Breton capital , Rennes , deposed Duke Conan and took over the duchy in the name of Conan 's infant daughter and heiress Constance . |
| 8 | She took over the phone in a vain attempt to replace Dana , only to admit defeat late on Thursday evening when she was forced , reluctantly , to agree to Myra 's insistence that she wear the wedding gown herself . |
| 9 | Guruji took over the building in 1963 and hung out a simple sign with the inscription Manasik Chikitsa Kendra — ‘ Centre for the Treatment of Mental Illnesses ’ . |
| 10 | That was when Silvio Berlusconi , the chairman of Fininvest ( which owns a chunk of the Italian economy ) , one of the wealthiest men in the country and a true Milanese , took over the team in order to challenge Gianni Agnelli 's Juventus , of Turin . |
| 11 | David Birney took over the role in the TV series . |
| 12 | Brecon Mountain took over the Rheidol in March 1989 following the purchase of the two-foot gauge line from British Rail . |
| 13 | But Sue is quick to justify the power she wields since she took over the editorship in 1989 . |
| 14 | He took over the premiership in January 1974 after the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ) ( ETA ) had killed his predecessor , Adml. |
| 15 | The Torbay line has always been run as a large-scale people mover and minimalist operation since the DVR took over the line in 1973 , but this stance failed to deliver the desired profitable results in 1991 . |
| 16 | Dunlop took over the lead in the 125 championship race on lap 13 , which proved unlucky for Italian Ivan Cremonini , who had set the pace for eight laps . |
| 17 | Dunlop took over the lead in the 125 championship race on lap 13 , which proved unlucky for Italian Ivan Cremonini , who had set the pace for eight laps . |
| 18 | When the Corporation took over the tramway in 1892 , conditions improved : the working week was reduced from 90 to 60 hours and wages raised to 24 shillings . |
| 19 | Since he took up the position in 1987 , closures of geriatric hospitals , partnership with the private sector , nurse regradings , NHS trusts and a review of maternity and acute services , which will cut over 1,000 hospital beds and possibly lead to a closure of a number of hospitals , are among the controversies which have raged . |
| 20 | I took up the tin-whistle in earnest |
| 21 | Professor Juliet Cheetham took up the Directorship in January , 1986 . |
| 22 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 23 | Mrs Phillipa Grove took up the lease in 1782 and on her death her daughter , Miss Phillipa Grove renewed the tenancy and payed £44. 10s a year rent to Lord Pembroke . |
| 24 | When he first took up the post in September 1943 one of his students was the fourteen-year-old Robert Hunt , then doing a junior art scholarship and familiarly known as Bobby . |
| 25 | In January 1869 , on the strength of his published work and Ritschl 's glowing reference , he was offered the chair despite his youth and lack of the usually mandatory doctorate and " habilitation " ; he took up the post in April 1869 . |
| 26 | Eventually , four non-farmers took up the challenge in the hope of winning a ten thousand pound nest-egg . |
| 27 | The Lyle family took out the lease in 1920 and spent their own money on the restoration of Barrington Court and the creation of the Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens , which are only partly on Trust owned land . |
| 28 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 29 | The first ‘ relief half-tone ’ appeared in 1854 with a print by Paul Pretsch ( who took out the patent in London ) and de la Rue of ‘ The Scene in Gaeta after the Explosion . |