Example sentences of "took [adv] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admired the way she took on this part of the world and conquered it . ’ |
| 2 | Noel explains why the number is so small : ‘ When we took on this responsibility it was made clear that there were to be no extra funds specifically for underwater archaeology . |
| 3 | It came quite late : Nilsson was 40 when she took on this Minnie . |
| 4 | The views of people who had previously looked after those who died sometimes reflected their gratitude and admiration for the people who took on this task . |
| 5 | I took on this franchise 2 years ago and I 've got the same amount of customers now as I had then . |
| 6 | I took over this dump six months ago . ’ |
| 7 | The Section took over this work from the Treasury ( who had made some embarrassing errors in their calculation ) and submitted detailed proposals for post-war full employment to a Cabinet committee chaired by Anderson in May 1943 . |
| 8 | The Duart Point wreck was the first to be designated since Historic Scotland took over this function from the Department of Transport . |
| 9 | I had a lot of help from people and erm well I 'm fairly adaptable and I sort of took over this job of Chief Administrator 's Assistant . |
| 10 | Because when we took over this room it had actually two extra floors in , one where you see the joists and one higher up . |
| 11 | Today , however , the biggest problem that faces David Coleridge , who took over this month as chairman of Lloyd 's , is not one of scandal , but of profits . |
| 12 | Her stepfather took over this task for her . |
| 13 | However the 1988 Act took away this right of appeal from everyone , except those who have been in the country for more than seven years . |
| 14 | Paleontologists such as William Buckland took up this interpretation with enthusiasm , thus combining a continued belief in the argument from design with opposition to transmutation via the concept of successive creations . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth have calculated that if China , India , Indonesia and Brazil took up this concession fully until 1995 , global production would have doubled from the 1986 level . |
| 16 | SAVE took up this issue with the case of St Francis Xavier in Liverpool . |
| 17 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 18 | Lister was then at the height of his struggle against infection in surgical operations and took up this observation in experiments with bacterial cultures . |
| 19 | The Nigerian Standard , owned by the plateau State Government , took up this theme in an editorial which described the reports as the ‘ handwork of some adventurers ’ and claimed that certain western nations were envious of the stability of African states and the cordial relations they enjoyed with one another . |
| 20 | The three popular dailies took up this theme in their inside-page stories with almost identical headlines : Woman juror hits out at child killer , HOW CAN THEY LET THIS ANIMAL LIVE ? |
| 21 | The US State Department , in its advice to a new president ( Harry S. Truman ) from April 1945 , took up this theme in some detail in its preparations for the Potsdam Conference ( July–August ) . |
| 22 | George Herbert took up this image by saying that God 's ‘ silk twist ’ links earth to heaven . |
| 23 | Mr. Browne took up this point : ‘ Where one huge bogeyman has gone , a lot of little bogeymen lurk , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Steers ( 1964 ) took up this point and argued that the structure and history , as far as it is known , of Blakeney Point pointed to a westwards movement of material in the long term view . |
| 25 | The BDDA took up this matter on their behalf and succeeded in getting deaf motorists insured at normal rates with the Ocean Accident and Guaranteed Corporation . |
| 26 | Texts in English such as George Day 's Practical Treatise on the Domestic Management and Most Important Diseases of Advanced Life ( 1549 ) soon took up this thinking . |
| 27 | Although you 're reaping the rewards for many of the brave decisions you took earlier this year , it seems you 're still paying the price for some others ! |