Example sentences of "[noun sg] takes [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In words like ‘ potato ’ , ‘ tomato ’ , ‘ canary ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , ‘ today ’ , the vowel in the first syllable may disappear ; the aspiration of the initial plosive takes up the whole of the middle portion of the syllable , resulting in these pronunciations ( where indicates aspiration ) : ; ; ; ; |
| 2 | This chapter takes up the theme of industrial determination introduced in relation to the Northern Region in Chapter 3 . |
| 3 | Tenderly : A 1953 jam session takes up the whole of one side . |
| 4 | In a Word , the paraclete takes over the role of Jesus . |
| 5 | The child takes over the mother 's view of itself ; verbal appellations reinforce the manipulative process . |
| 6 | The teacher takes on the role of an alien , who says that the crew of the Starship must be lying when they say their leader is a man . |
| 7 | Or perhaps the teacher takes on the role of the Pied Piper and tells the class ( still as townspeople ) that they can write letters to their children ( out of role the teacher could suggest these might be in code ) ; the drama might focus on negotiations between the townspeople and the Pied Piper . |
| 8 | A small theatre group takes on the task of mounting a Passion Play in Montreal . |
| 9 | ‘ There will certainly be a strike across the republic if the military takes over the railway , ’ said the movement 's spokesman , Nazim Ragimov . |
| 10 | The order of salvation takes up the order of creation . |
| 11 | The forced march through Siberia becomes increasingly desperate and hallucinatory ( in fact Ypsilanti is , from the outset , clear in his own mind that they will never find the emperor ) : when the regiment comes to cross the tajga in July 1918 , the forest takes on the appearance both of a paradise regained and of a place of horror , endless in extent , haunted by marauding tigers and ghostly tribes . |
| 12 | If mum takes up the game again , then why not her children in future years ? |
| 13 | Then the runners arrive and the sustained technical difficulty takes over the interest . |
| 14 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 15 | Wings appear externally for the first time and the insect takes on the appearance of an adult . |
| 16 | The video takes up the story of two of the characters from A Weekend Away whom we now meet on holiday on the south coast of England . |
| 17 | The wife takes on the bulk of the household tasks even if the husband may help occasionally . |
| 18 | But with business concluded , the convention changes gear and , from Thursday on , everyone is in full motley and a gigantic free-wheeling circus takes over the town , with clowns doing their stuff along the esplanade , at the railway station , on the buses , in the streets , pubs , restaurants and takeaways , as well as under the big top and in the conference centre . |
| 19 | The man of wealth and pride Takes up the space that many poor supplied ; |
| 20 | To lift the patient off the bed onto a chair or commode , one carer takes up the position already described , while the other stands behind the patient on the bed and guides the patient 's seat up and round onto the chair . |
| 21 | Spry takes up the attack . |
| 22 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 23 | If , as previously shown , the free end of this two-link system is attached to a third member ( C in Figure 7.39 ) which is also grounded , the mechanism takes on the form of a four bar chain . |
| 24 | The son of the present owner takes up the story . ’ |
| 25 | Peter Dew takes up the story : ‘ Throughout the weekend we worked in our teams to complete a whole range of physical and mental challenges from negotiating the longest assault course in Britain , going on night manoeuvres to rifle shooting . |
| 26 | If , however , the decision is not challenged , the supervisor takes over the running of the IVA . |
| 27 | So for a lot of the time , their father takes on the job . |
| 28 | Playing the game takes over the drama session and becomes a means for the children ( and sometimes the teacher ) to avoid the drama . |
| 29 | I 'm surprised that one did n't work because I mean they 're usually hot on it , you know they know where to go and and usually there 's action taken if a councillor takes up the cause . |
| 30 | Firstly , the state takes on the role of intervening in the relations of production to control the dysfunctional aspects of capitalism ; the contradictions of capital that Marx described . |