Example sentences of "take off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 2 | Either , he finds ‘ time dragging terribly ’ and returns to work , or , he resists this urge , takes off to the seaside , wakes up one morning , says ‘ Twenty years retired , it seems like only five minutes , ’ and drops dead . |
| 3 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 4 | and rowing for gold all this week will be the best oarsmen … young and old … from all over the world as the royal regatta takes off on the Thames at henley … we 'll be on the water tomorrow night to look ahead with the fastest school crew in the country |
| 5 | Apparently , in the movements before a 360 ° loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle . |
| 6 | GOING : Bungy-jumping Mirrorman Wigmore takes off from the cradle 200 ft up |
| 7 | The first solo , tabbed last month , was in the key of E. This second solo takes off in the key of F , although the two-note pickup is played over the last beat of the final bar of E. |
| 8 | ‘ If it takes off in the States , the sky 's the limit , ’ he says . |
| 9 | ‘ Mick sometimes takes off in the wagon , but he 's only too pleased to get back to Chigwell . |
| 10 | The plane that would not take off without the khat |
| 11 | Planes ca n't take off without the rigger there to pull away the chocks . |
| 12 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 13 | Raging at Felipe had just been because she 'd been shocked and scared for him when she 'd seen him take off into the air . |
| 14 | Graham Dodsworth , sales controller for Skipper of Darlington , said : ‘ Things should really take off at the weekend when people have a chance to look round our showrooms on their day off . ’ |
| 15 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 16 | They would take off in the event of a German cut , which would make lower UK rates more likely . |
| 17 | A 53-YEAR-OLD aircraft engineer rode on the tail of a light plane out to sea off New Zealand and back yesterday after it took off without the pilot knowing he was there . |
| 18 | Masklin grabbed the Thing and took off across the polished surface . |
| 19 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 20 | The aircraft took off into the darkness . |
| 21 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |
| 22 | Pushing his way through the bushes along the side of the path , Greg took off into the gardens of Meadowbanks , flanking the fire-fighting operation along the front of the house . |
| 23 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 24 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
| 25 | And the car took off up the North End Road before he 'd got the door shut . |
| 26 | ‘ See yah around , ’ Billy bawled over his shoulder and waved as the bike took off towards the main Bristol road . |
| 27 | Jack chucked her her helmet , stowed the emergency gear and fired up his bike , and in seconds she was clinging on behind him as the sirens wailed and they took off through the car park as if the hounds of hell were after them . |
| 28 | D-DAY , June 6 , 1944 when the Allied invasion of Europe began , Sugar took off under the command of F/O I Fotheringham of 467 Squadron at 02.53 hours on this momentous day and delivered its 13,000lb bomb load onto a coastal battery at St Pierre du Mont . |
| 29 | Another five reluctant paired birds took off as the panic spread around the pond . |
| 30 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |