Example sentences of "begin take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 2 | The oppressed begin to take on the view of the oppressor and in our example above , would begin to feel that their depression is a personal failure . |
| 3 | Almost immediately the national press began taking up the campaign . |
| 4 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 5 | Wordsworth returned to his former trust in France , and thought of the British Tory government as ‘ vermin' ( Prelude 1805 , x , 655 ) ; but when the French began to take away the liberty of other countries , Wordsworth saw that there was little to choose between the French and any other conquering nation ( Prelude 1805 , x , 792 ff ) . |
| 6 | Although a late developer , it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion . |
| 7 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 8 | As August progressed , Arafat began to take on the role of Saddam 's chief ally . |
| 9 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 10 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 11 | Then , collecting her thoughts , shutting out all sound save that in her headset , she began to take down the message . |
| 12 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 13 | Although some schools were quick off the mark to evacuate their children , it was not until May 1940 when the German Wehrmacht overran Holland , Belgium and struck deep into northern France that schools in danger areas began to take seriously the need for evacuation . |
| 14 | She began to take out the postcards , revealing the snapshots underneath . |
| 15 | He picked up the envelope and began to take out the sheet of paper inside . |
| 16 | Without waiting for an answer , she walked round to the boot and began to take out the luggage . |
| 17 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 18 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
| 19 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 20 | Back in Vienna , Constanze , for once not pregnant , had begun to take over the financial reins with great aplomb . |
| 21 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |