Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1 A consistent feature of unpaid caring , demonstrated by all the available detailed studies , is that once a particular relative has taken on the responsibility for the care of an elderly or handicapped person they get rather limited support , if any , from other relatives or friends .
2 Thus evidence was taken on the need for the bill and why it was proposed to deal with problems in a particular way .
3 Palm have taken on the franchise for Dagger kayaks .
4 Welcome to Save The Children in Sutton Coldfield where children from school have taken over the shop for a day .
5 Sally the lass who 's taken over the buying for precision bearings , is a great lass got on great with her , and Richard .
6 By July 6 Mladenov 's own Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) had taken up the call for his resignation with an editorial in the party newspaper Duma .
7 He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour .
8 Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher .
9 Meanwhile , a second pressure pad has already taken up the tension for the next length of rods .
10 It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores .
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