Example sentences of "and take [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) , Lockwood plays a ruthless woman who enters the house of an old schoolfriend as a governess and takes up with the man of the house . |
| 2 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 3 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |
| 4 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 5 | Well the answer is yes but of course landing and taking off on a road is one thing , being able to operate is another one because clearly one needs er fuel , weapons , ground crew and the like but landing on a road in itself is is not difficult . |
| 6 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 7 | He was released from prison after thirty months , returned to his barker 's job in San Francisco and took up with a stripper . |
| 8 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |
| 9 | He opened a small cupboard in an old sideboard and took out of a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |
| 10 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 11 | Masklin grabbed the Thing and took off across the polished surface . |
| 12 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 13 | Sometimes he left the food , leaned into the wind and took off for a while , to circle and check that no Men were about . |
| 14 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 17 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |
| 18 | Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves . |
| 19 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 20 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 21 | At last the Stones were bundled into the building and taken up onto the roof for the promised interview . |
| 22 | Differing tendencies are brought within the Party fold and taken up by the leadership ; otherwise , they perish . |
| 23 | The trend was started by The Independent , and taken up by The Guardian , more for commercial reasons than as a principled stand . |
| 24 | Di Revelle from the Red Cross says I 'd like to see it introduced in schools and taken up by the community . |
| 25 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 26 | He was assigned to what was vaguely described as ‘ guard duty , ’ warned not to talk about his work and taken down to the basement to start . |
| 27 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 28 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |
| 29 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 30 | Then he suddenly remembered Sophia Ainger 's sister , the rather odd young woman he had met in Bloomsbury that evening and taken out for a drink . |