Example sentences of "[vb mod] take [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Liza Tremayne should take up with a corporal was so unlikely as to be ludicrous . |
| 2 | If the new system does offer real advantages then peer-group pressure might take over after a time and accelerate the change-over . |
| 3 | er yeah , that 's a proper dog one and they said that 'll take up to a size of a labrador that 's why I got it , erm but the cover 's removable and |
| 4 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 5 | Results will be given as quickly as possible , but some experts fear they could take up to a month if demand is high . |
| 6 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 7 | By such primitive methods , the volume of gas necessary to carry one or two people aloft , could take up to a day and a half to produce . |
| 8 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 9 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 10 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 11 | But what racing could give after one good day , it could take away after a bad one . |
| 12 | The primary reason for this move was not a desire for increased tax revenue , welcome as this no doubt was , but , rather , an expression of the Government 's opposition to people enjoying a larger income when out of work than they could take home in a wage packet . |
| 13 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 14 | It is done in spring or early summer on outdoor plants , and rooting may take up to a year ; pot plants are layered any time and should root in a few weeks . |
| 15 | Although a few may take up to a week of daily feeding with the culprit food before they respond , this is probably fairly unusual . |
| 16 | In fact , it may take up to a week before your bank actually receives the money . |
| 17 | This , it is to be assumed , his liberal readers may take seriously as a threat , but hardly as an option . |
| 18 | During the famous Intermezzo the conductor asked Mascagni if he would take over for a moment . |
| 19 | Prototype materials were tried out in these schools with the help of field curriculum workers ( mobile teacher trainers whose story we shall take up in a later chapter ) and later refined and distributed in final form to a further eight hundred schools with a similar scale of supervision , in the hope that these would serve as a nucleus in each state for further dissemination to other schools . |
| 20 | The journey to the Adriatic will take up to a week . |
| 21 | The idea of curriculum review has been brought into the schools ' arena , though whether it will take off as a regular and meaningful exercise seems doubtful . |
| 22 | If your husband retires on a Friday , it is unrealistic to think that your great new life together will take off with a flourish the following Monday ; but the good news is that if you can think in terms of allowing yourselves time to renegotiate the way you live together , the chances are that you will both have adjusted to the new situation within about two years . |
| 23 | But the long-term effect is that the economy at home will take off like a rocket in mid-1993 . |
| 24 | Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established . |
| 25 | The not-so-good news is that this can take up to a year . |
| 26 | Each image can take up to a megabyte of memory to store and can be saved in TIFF , BMP , PCX , LBM or RGB formats . |
| 27 | biopsy on Tuesday , and it can take up to a week |
| 28 | And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’ |