Example sentences of "[noun pl] take [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff working at Hartlepool 's Middleton Grange Shopping Centre have been assured that their jobs will be safe when new owners take over from the borough council . |
| 2 | So that when they sit facing each other on either side of their fire-place , both grins take off in the direction of the mantelpiece , as if drawn by the draught . |
| 3 | Harriers take off around the clock from hastily constructed hides . |
| 4 | These fugitives that are Negroes go by the name of Maroon , whilst the renegades to the King 's laws are called by the common sailors red legs ( that being the colour our white skins take on in the heat of the sun in these regions ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |