Example sentences of "take [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ?
2 The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’
3 That takes on from charity .
4 If what each child takes away from school is its effective curriculum , then the starting point of an enquiry should be the right of access which each pupil has ‘ to different areas of human knowledge and experience ’ .
5 Paul Field : Takes over at Capital House
6 And one of the two new caps , the Australian Brian Smith who takes over at fly-half from the injured Paul Dean , has had a less than spectacular season with Leinster .
7 Former Neath centre Jason Ball takes over at full-back , while Andrew Metcalfe comes in to replace Clarke .
8 Still a member at Hillside , although based at Altrincham , Nutter takes over as North Region secretary from Norman Fletcher , who is moving to PGA headquarters at the Belfry as Association Manager .
9 It certainly may not stop with Mr Manfred Gerlach , the moderately reform-minded leader of the formerly stooge-like Liberal Democratic Party , who now takes over as head of state .
10 Stempel had been replaced by two men : John Smith is the new chief executive officer and John Smale takes over as chairman .
11 Mark Jones , who is on the playing staff , takes over as treasurer .
12 Roger Davies ( below left ) , formerly production director at Royal Tuscan , takes over as production director at Coalport .
13 As Chris Llewellyn Smith , who takes over as director at CERN next year , points out , the unstarted LHC is less than $3 billion from completion all told , while the SSC , despite being $2 billion in the hole , still has $8 billion to go .
14 Brendan O'Neill is now Managing Director of Guinness Brewing Worldwide , and Philip Yea takes over as Finance Director of Guinness PLC with the retirement of Ian Duncan in November 1993 .
15 In Portugal , Sporting Lisbon gave Bobby Robson a glimpse of the task facing him when he takes over as manager in the summer by losing 1–0 at home to Guimaraes .
16 April 1991 : Takes over as manager of Liverpool .
17 Totten takes over as East Fife manager
18 One narrator who temporarily takes over from Stencil is Fausto Maijstral , a Maltese poet who has kept a record of the German siege of the island during the last world war .
19 He takes over from fullback Pat Murray .
20 Business takes off at school
21 Plane takes off with man riding on the tail
22 Changes which are identified here are thought to be suggestive of changes which might take place in other areas of Shetland as the construction phase of the oil era winds down , and the oil production phase takes off in earnest .
23 The article continues : ’ Sports bodies are denied resources by government , which takes more from sport than it ever gives back .
24 Ten-year-old Opal ( Gaby Hoffmann ) and 15-year-old Erica ( Samantha Mathis ) simmer with resentment at their mother 's abandonment and completely flip their tiny lids when she takes up with talent spotter Arnold Moss ( Dan Aykroyd ) .
25 We wish also to persuade him that once he takes fully into account that his ultimate goals are spontaneous ( are , not ought to be ; what they ought to be is intelligent as well as spontaneous ) , he will require no first principle other than ‘ Be aware ’ for choosing between them .
26 I 've seen bands play better soundchecks and it did n't take long for self ( and a few others ) to head for home .
27 In the same week in which President Bush appeared on national television brandishing $3,200 worth of cocaine ( coercively obtained from a dealer who was dragged a block or two nearer the White House ) to raise the air-time mileage he earns on drugs , it did not take long for outrage to be expressed .
28 Some supporters of her National Opposition Coalition , known as U N O cheered dutifully , others booed her announcement that although she would take over as Minister of Defence , General Ortega was staying on .
29 Speculation that Hani would take over as head of the SACP at the end of the year increased following the announcement on Aug. 27 that Slovo was suffering from cancer .
30 it was a similar story when Haslam moved to become deputy chairman of ICI Fibres in 1969 with the intention that he would soon take over as chairman .
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