Example sentences of "taken [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 2 | A consistent feature of unpaid caring , demonstrated by all the available detailed studies , is that once a particular relative has taken on the responsibility for the care of an elderly or handicapped person they get rather limited support , if any , from other relatives or friends . |
| 3 | Whatever our misgivings about the story 's historicity ( and we make a grave and fundamental error if we think the value of a passage like this is measured by the extent of its historicity ) , and however confident we might be about its origins , it asks and surely deserves to be taken on the storyteller 's own terms . |
| 4 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 5 | She may have done : it is surprising , and must have struck contemporaries as highly suspicious , that vengeance was not taken on the murderers . |
| 6 | That first presidential order to send American troops into possible combat was taken on the run , as Bush was preparing for his first superpower summit with Mikhail Gorbachev at Malta . |
| 7 | Boyd 's cross was taken on the volley by Ferguson as he deliberately launched himself backwards to make room for a full-blooded shot . |
| 8 | Of course , months earlier , I had dully taken on the likelihood of major upheaval , on account of what was happening to John 's skin . |
| 9 | Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion . |
| 10 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |
| 11 | The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice . |
| 12 | He 's in a photo of Mrs Nowak 's taken on the day her husband went back to Poland . |
| 13 | Also one of the new pope 's first actions , taken on the day after his consecration , was to extract an oath of obedience from the prefect of Rome . |
| 14 | A throat culture taken on the day of microbiological diagnosis was negative . |
| 15 | By the middle of the twelfth century , a revised order introduced a solemn oath which was taken on the gospels . |
| 16 | The WE177 free-fall bomb will be approaching the end of its service life around the turn of the century , but no decision has yet been taken on the system to replace it , or where it will be based . |
| 17 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 18 | Matthew A. has taken on the notion of drafting , of provisionality , better than the others . |
| 19 | takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky . |
| 20 | A major chain of small grocery shops has taken on the might of the big wholesalers in a battle over the right to sell newspapers . |
| 21 | But there have been people so sunk in self-blame they 've taken on the guilt of their firm 's collapse — which really does have to be nonsense . |
| 22 | No-one cared how long we had taken on the route . |
| 23 | The Conservatives have a tendency to believe that planning decisions can be taken on the profit motive . |
| 24 | It may be easier to make long-term decisions about the best size and type of steel mill if a simultaneous decision is taken on the level of car production to which steel output forms an important input . |
| 25 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 26 | Thus , over the years , many life assurance companies have taken on the management of pension funds on behalf of firms and other institutions . |
| 27 | The agent would agree with the promoter that for every pound taken on the door , the artist will receive a certain percentage . |
| 28 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 29 | He stresses that the decision was taken on the spur of the moment and that it seemed completely acceptable to everyone there at the time . |
| 30 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |