Example sentences of "took [adv] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Bowley , or Bowyer , a shot maker who took on the Hartfield steel forge in 1525 , might have been related to either Valentine or Nicholas Bowyer ( land £2 and £3 respectively ) . |
| 2 | The first was only 18 months ago when we took on the New Zealand Emerging Players XI . |
| 3 | as if life at Westminster were not strain enough , the House of Lords took on the Commons in a tug o' war contest this week . |
| 4 | Bruce went to the book shelf and took down the Mackenzie Bible . |
| 5 | Later in his career , when his delicate health forced him to give up racing , he took over the Danebury stables from John Day , and became renowned as a trainer of steeplechasers as well as flat racers . |
| 6 | He gave up training in 1892 , and his son Tom Cannon took over the Danebury stable . |
| 7 | Luqa airfield in September 1940 , shortly after 261 Squadron took over the Hal Far Fighter Flight . |
| 8 | Kirton first achieved coaching prominence in London and , on his return to New Zealand , eventually took over the Wellington side . |
| 9 | Leslie , the former All Black captain , took over the Wellington team some time after Kirton departed that job . |
| 10 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 11 | In 1797 , Robert Owen ( q.v. ) met Dale 's daughter , Anne Caroline Dale , whom he later married , and subsequently took over the New Lanark Mills , which employed a thousand people . |
| 12 | The Gestapo took over the Lichtenstein Palace during the war and it is now being refurbished for the federal government . |
| 13 | A British officer also took over the Vichy commander 's mistress , a fact noted by a young British intelligence officer named Quintin Hogg . |
| 14 | Carlton which took over the London weekday franchise from Thames , already owns 20 per cent of Central . |
| 15 | Page 26 James Neill sold : MMG Patricof , the fund manager , successfully took over the Sheffield engineering company James Neill after launching a £78m cash bid . |
| 16 | Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat . |
| 17 | Cupid , which is moving its head office from Accrington to Blackburn , Lancashire , said it needed the cash to reduce borrowings which had increased since it took over the Youngs formal wear business last year . |
| 18 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 19 | Most of his other property was left to John Williamson , who worked with Furber during his later years and took over the Kensington nursery , which was maintained by a succession of gardeners until the late 1840s . |
| 20 | The tall , blond player who had joined West Ham at the tender of age of 17 some four years earlier , had done more than choose the right moment to emerge , he 'd nicely anticipated the coming of the right man , Alf Ramsey , who took over the England management shortly afterwards and began to forge the national side which would win the World Cup in 1966 and in which Moore would play an anchor role . |
| 21 | Grange House School took over the Marston farm last month after delays in getting planning permission for another site nearby . |
| 22 | The split happened after a property company took over the White Hart and raised the rent from £20,000 to £37,000 a year . |
| 23 | On 1 April 1990 prisoners took over the Strangeways Prison , Manchester in what was to become the most prolonged protest against inhuman and degrading conditions in penal institutions . |
| 24 | Hong Kong 's achievement in Catania has been Simpkin 's first success since he took over the Hong Kong representative side . |
| 25 | This latter influence became more pronounced when the Britons took over the George Shanks version of the Protocols , entitled The Jewish Peril , in 1920 , and published the Victor Marsden version , World Conquest through World Government , in 1921 . |
| 26 | His son took over the Kirkwall Hotel when he grew up . |
| 27 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 28 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 29 | In 1928 ten new Pullman cars , fitted with pantograph collectors instead of trolley poles , took over the Fleetwood service . |
| 30 | As more cars came , they took over the Fleetwood service , until on 10 March 1953 , there was a complete service by Coronations between Starr Gate and Fleetwood for the first time . |