Example sentences of "had take [adv prt] from the " in BNC.

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1 During the first half of the 1970s all three of the most heavily urbanized regions ( South-East , North-West , West Midlands ) had population growth below the national rate , suggesting that the urban-rural dichotomy had taken over from the north-south divide as the main feature of UK population change .
2 There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) .
3 Over thirteen years , since he had taken over from the retiring senior partner to whom Francis Sutherland originally brought the affairs of Sleet , David Rosen and Delia Sutherland had come to know each other well enough to do without greetings ; they liked it that way .
4 Near Paderborn in Westphalia in the small town of Wewelsburg was the castle of that name which Heinrich Himmler had taken over from the local council in 1934 .
5 Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar .
6 The Beatles had taken over from the Rolling Stones , but Gabriel , used to pop boiling over all around her , did not notice .
7 The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island .
8 At 0748hrs Zeros and Val dive-bombers which had taken off from the Soryu attacked .
9 The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase .
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