Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] he [vb mod] take " in BNC.

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1 WHEN A CLUB as great as Cardiff fall on times as hard as they are now it is easy to understand why they ask New Zealand 's John Hart if he could take over as coaching director and why they have asked Australia 's Alec Evans the same question .
2 Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college .
3 The shed running foreman had asked Sam if he would take young John as there was no one available at the time .
4 Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him .
5 He tells Dixie that he 'll take an ounce .
6 In his reply Dr. Yeats expressed his gratitude and assured Whitbread that he would take the earliest opportunity of using the oil ; a month later however , the doctor sent his servant with an apology — he had not yet had a chance to use it .
7 During the famous Intermezzo the conductor asked Mascagni if he would take over for a moment .
8 A group of Scots taken prisoner at Solway Moss , the earls of Glencairn and Cassillis , lords Fleming , Maxwell , Somerville and others , obtained their release and were sent back to Scotland when they signed a request to Henry that he should take Mary into his care , with the intention of marrying her to his son , the future Edward VI ; their offer that they would help to bring him to power in Scotland , should Mary die , was kept entirely secret .
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