Example sentences of "he [verb] take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 2 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 3 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 4 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 5 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 6 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 7 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 8 | He has taken on a personality , like those crackpots who claim to have been reincarnated , from another culture . |
| 9 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 10 | By the halfway stage he has taken on the slightly desperate , bloodshot aspect of the tragic hero about to be engulfed by the forces he has unleashed : ‘ I shall resolutely ignore everything but the skeletal essentials of my theme , ’ he declares ( ‘ Off , off you lendings ! ’ ) . |
| 11 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 12 | At first Minton felt he was too involved with things to get away : ‘ As for Dimbulb Verrico , ’ he told Hunt , ‘ he has taken out a licence to marry his motorbicycle , and I have not seen him since you left … |
| 13 | Part of his stock-in-trade when he wants to take over an organization . |
| 14 | No , I think he he says taking over the car lease . |
| 15 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |
| 16 | But in his first televised interview since becoming president-elect , Clinton said he would focus ‘ like a laser beam ’ on the US economy as he prepares to take over the White House on January 20 . |
| 17 | ‘ After the third retake , he threatened to take off a bit of clothing every time the scene was done again . |
| 18 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 19 | He needed taking down a peg . ’ |
| 20 | One night , in the privacy of their own bedroom , he decided to take up the matter again with Elizabeth . |
| 21 | When I was about eleven , he must have been about fourteen or fifteen , and he decided to take up the concert flute — so he suggested that instead of us staying on tin whistles , we should all take up different instruments . |
| 22 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
| 23 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 24 | And Otis is relieved that he did take out the extra cover , because , in September in 1989 , just five months after he bought the car , he had an accident . |
| 25 | He threatens to take out an injunction ; but Michael persuades him that , before making up his mind , he should at least come back and watch a rehearsal . |
| 26 | Elsham signalbox is situated in a very remote part of the Lincolnshire countryside and thus evokes more strange happenings that baffled John Daubney when he had to take over the box as a relief signalman . |
| 27 | He had to take out the man furthest from him first , the man least prepared . |
| 28 | yeah , cos he had to take out an insurance this will be er |
| 29 | Phil , who graduated in Physics in 1987 , invited fellow students and staff to take part in the sponsored abseil and received such a positive response that he had to take down the posters advertising the idea after 48 people volunteered . |
| 30 | The year before Mountbatten died he had taken over the reins of the United World Colleges ( UWC ) from his great-uncle . |