Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to take [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First half losses at Groupe Bull cause the company to plead with the French government to take it over . |
| 2 | The most obvious person to take it out on is your boyfriend , and so I settled for that . |
| 3 | Steady pressure , however , persuaded the National Heritage Memorial Fund to provide the endowment needed for the National Trust to take it on . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , the Democrats could find no major challenger to take him on . |
| 5 | The London Society implicitly recognises this when it goes on to argue that a DG would allow the president 's post to become part-time , thereby allowing the senior partner of a major practice to take it on . |
| 6 | We have a very busy programme to take us through to the end of the year . |
| 7 | The plots , counterplots , dead bodies and other nasty goings-on are laced with a soupçon of romantic interest to take it out of the boys- only category . |
| 8 | She made no apparent effort to take it in . |
| 9 | It has no right to be there and if you will take my advice you will tell Frank Coven to take it out of that window and back to the bank as fast as he can . ’ |
| 10 | It occurs in a book called The Scots Week-end , published by the Carswells in the late 1930s , and crying out for some other publisher to take it up and put it on the market , where it would be grabbed by many eager Scots . |
| 11 | As Glumdalclitch was ill , I asked a young servant to take me down to the beach for some fresh air . |
| 12 | Oh , she 's got all the answers up her sleeve I expect , but that has caused tremendous debt charges , which , at the moment , have to be paid , and whether we could find a private operator to take them on or not I do n't know , but private operators operate throughout the country and in many other of the districts within the county of Oxfordshire , and they operate efficiently and do just as good a job as the City Council are doing in the present situation . |
| 13 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |