Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb mod] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |
| 2 | He looked like he 'd take off into outer space with animation . |
| 3 | During the famous Intermezzo the conductor asked Mascagni if he would take over for a moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was doubtful whether he could take on mountain tribes . |
| 6 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 7 | Or rather , when he should take over according to a scenario worked out when the Ferrasse-Fabre coalition was born . |
| 8 | That lightness of his , each step as though he might take off altogether ! — and then , how he stood there , at the foot of the stairs , straight and slender ; you 'd think he was from another world , he was so pale and fine , with his glistening cropped hair … but he was scowling most horribly . |
| 9 | Because it takes so long for blood alcohol levels to fall , it 's easy for someone who drinks ‘ modestly ’ at lunch time and after work to go over the limit , even though he may take only four units on each occasion . |