Example sentences of "take [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Callil is apparent delighted with this rather alarmingly styled position , which she will take upon her 55th birthday on 15th July . |
| 2 | In spite of his own savage appetites , Malcolm took as his second wife a remarkably pious woman . |
| 3 | Cocks married in 1688 Frances , daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear , Berkshire , and within a few months of being widowed , in 1724 , took as his second wife Mary , daughter of William Bethell of Swindon . |
| 4 | In 1543 , Henry VIII took as his sixth wife , Catherine Parr , who had already survived two husbands , and she also survived Henry VIII who died in 1547 , to be succeeded by his nine year old son , Edward VI , who became an enthusiastic Protestant . |
| 5 | ‘ The letter Maurice took with him last night referred to another document which he did n't have . |
| 6 | I felt slightly uneasy with the direction he took in his last book , Under Siege , in which Coonts ' hero Jake Grafton forsook the jet fuel , grease and steam-slick decks of nuclear carriers for the even more treacherous corridors of the Pentagon , and The Cannibal Queen has n't reassured me that he 's back on track . |
| 7 | Louis had now taken in his first partner , Hyman Silverman . |
| 8 | Three examples , taken from our eleventh report , show something of the variation . |
| 9 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 10 | Hong Kong graduates even sent in photographs taken at their 25th anniversary dinner . |
| 11 | Parts II and III are handed to the employees to take to their next employers , who will copy the details on to the P11 card , file Part II for reference and complete Part III and send it to their local inspector of taxes . |