Example sentences of "[pers pn] to take the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Heart bleeds to see the Concern he is in ; and it would be the utmost Satisfaction to me , if I could hope any thing of mine could contribute to his comfortable Subsistence in his old Age : I therefore beg of you to take the Key of my Buroe ; and if any thing is to be made of my poor Papers , that you will , for my sake , endeavour to promote a Subscription for his Benefit , which you so kindly have propos 'd for mine |
| 2 | Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness . |
| 3 | Robin Denny , prosecuting , said Cook told her to take the rest of her clothes off . |
| 4 | It would enable them to take the surrender of the 200,000 Croats on their arrival in Austria and hand them back to the " local Jugoslav forces " , without having to be concerned by the general instruction that all surrendering Yugoslavs should be retained pending a political decision as to their ultimate disposal . |
| 5 | One partial solution to the problem of accounting for intra-regional cross-boundary flows would be to allocate resources to authorities taking no account of the cross-boundary flows and to leave them to take the responsibility of paying for their own residents treated elsewhere … there would be far more flexibility for the Area planners to arrange health care for their population . |
| 6 | The various nations and nationalities of the USSR , at the same time , had their specific concerns , and the neglect of these during the Stalin and Brezhnev years had led them to take the form of ‘ public disaffection , which now and then escalated into conflicts ’ . |
| 7 | The time is coming , Brothers , for us to take the destiny of our nation into our own hands ! |