Example sentences of "took part [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In Bateman itself the accused took part of the victim 's uterus away during childbirth and did not remove her to hospital for five days . |
2 | Yet around 105,000 13 and 14-year-olds up and down the country took part in a maths challenge organised by the UK Mathematics Foundation earlier this month . |
3 | Some 350,000 people took part in a candlelight procession in Munich on Dec. 6 , and demonstrations on a similar scale were held in Berlin , Frankfurt , Hamburg and other major cities on Dec. 13 and 20 . |
4 | THRILLS and spills were the order of the day for four of LASMO 's Aberdeen employees when they took part in a raider racing tournament recently . |
5 | A group of runners from Alistair Shaw 's running club , Giffnock North , took part in a wheelchair push of three disabled people from a home in Glasgow round the 13.1 mile course . |
6 | Having been beaten 20-16 by Wakefield on their own Scatcherd Lane pitch in the North East final of the National Sevens Morley took part in a telephone toss-up with Waterloo , the North West runners-up . |
7 | This is one of the reasons we took part in a pilot evaluation scheme , funded by I B M Corporation . |
8 | On April 24 tens of thousands of people took part in a rally organized by Meciar 's Platform for a Democratic Slovakia faction . |
9 | Pensioners ' , disabled and war veterans ' associations took part in a rally organized by the BSP in Sofia on 12 , demanding increased allowances and pensions . |
10 | He spoke to sixth formers at St John 's RC Comprehensive about European politics and took part in a question and answer session with 40 pupils . |
11 | Cllr Dean said the council would take no action against council workers who took part in a TUC north west day of action on November 17 in protest against pit closures . |
12 | It was said to be Mrs Thatcher 's favourite television programme — indeed , she actually took part in a rehearsal . |
13 | Mr Fallon met Jonquil and other young voters including youngsters who took part in a mock-election at Hummersknot School at his Grange Road headquarters . |
14 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
15 | He has dismissed as ‘ dirtying , disgusting and unfair ’ charges in Time and the Washington Post that he took part in a gang rape at the age of nine . |
16 | This means that to prove the requisite degree of mens rea for an affray , it will he sufficient for the prosecutor to prove that the defendant knowingly took part in a fight . |
17 | Kratitz recently took part in a re-recording of John Lennon 's ‘ Give Peace A Chance ’ , which was partly re-written by Sean Ono Lennon and issued by Virgin . |
18 | For instance , returning to that problematic word cunt , I once took part in a discussion in which a woman explained that she did not use that word because for her , its connotations were unrelievedly pornographic . |
19 | Above left BOYB authors Adam Lively left and Will self took part in a discussion about the 1993 Best of Young British Novelists promotion . |
20 | Over 200,000 people took part in a memorial march for Dimitrov through Sofia on July 23 . |
21 | Death overtook events only one day after the writing of this letter , when on 30 June the king took part in a joust , that ‘ peaceful ’ demonstration of the military arts which was in fact potentially lethal . |
22 | In Azerbaijan the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region voted to establish itself as an independent republic with the support of 99.9 per cent of those who took part in a referendum on the matter , and applied to join the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States ; Azerbaijan , for its part , voted to abolish the region entirely , renamed its capital city and placed the whole area under the control of a military governor . |
23 | Residents of the Crimean Peninsula on Jan. 20 took part in a referendum organized by the regional soviet on restoring the region 's autonomy . |
24 | Inconsistencies in the initial report on the crash have led some investigators to suspect that the US and Canadian governments took part in a cover-up . |
25 | After the Restoration in 1660 he took part in a scheme for establishing a godly commonwealth in the Palatinate and maintained his connection with the Durham Baptists , while practising as an apothecary in London . |
26 | The prosecution alleged that they took part in a plan to offload cannabis resin at the Norfolk coast , the accused maintained that they had helped to load the cannabis on to the tug , but the drug was destined for Holland and not the UK . |
27 | Admittedly over ninety per cent of people who took part in a survey said that they would want to be told ; but it is important to stress that the respondents were all healthy people , and in illness attitudes may change . |
28 | While on bail , Colling also took part in a shopping trip with three others when they used a stolen credit card to buy petrol and goods from two supermarkets in Darlington . |
29 | In January he took part in a US Road Show around the Mid West , North East , South East and Texas . |
30 | On Feb. 16 more than 5,000 people took part in a protest march to the Moslem cemetery where victims of police action of the previous week were buried . |