Example sentences of "the [noun pl] took [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chains took up the slack and emerged from the river , long dripping lines of rusty tension , bound to the circular ship with its two little funnels . |
| 2 | The Maggot , Ellen insisted , was an untoilet-trained redneck jerk whose only expertise was as a player of the most brutal and mindless sport to be devised since the lions took on the Christians . |
| 3 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 4 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 5 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 6 | Computer technology was giving rise to a variety of innovative developments , and the field was in general pioneered by the CNAA and its institutions before the universities took up the challenge . |
| 7 | And the officers took over the house . |
| 8 | This latter influence became more pronounced when the Britons took over the George Shanks version of the Protocols , entitled The Jewish Peril , in 1920 , and published the Victor Marsden version , World Conquest through World Government , in 1921 . |
| 9 | Hollywood was just beginning to realize that the old phenomenon of stars might have an added significance in a period of depression and there must have been considerable delight in the studios at the alacrity with which the critics took up the subject of Cagney . |
| 10 | What they did was the nurses and the doctors took over the ward . |
| 11 | After the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620 , the Carmelites took over the church . |
| 12 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |