Example sentences of "took [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Mick though let's just remind you of what happened in Notts ' first match in group A when they took on at Lane . |
| 2 | So I took on as yard took on as yard foreman on the following Monday . |
| 3 | So I took on as yard took on as yard foreman on the following Monday . |
| 4 | Phrase ran beautifully into phrase , viola took on from violin , cello from viola without an obvious ‘ join ’ . |
| 5 | Some Latin-American gigolo like the one you took down to Ma ? ’ |
| 6 | He said that 's half the reason that Brian Tolbrook took over at Tettron ai n't it ? , |
| 7 | Dalglish will pay Swedish club Malmo £800,000 for their star man , taking his gross transfer outlay soaring to nearly £12 million in the 14 months since he took over at Ewood Park . |
| 8 | Dalglish will pay Swedish club Malmo £800,000 for their star man , taking his gross transfer outlay soaring to nearly £12 million in the 14 months since he took over at Ewood Park . |
| 9 | Hills took over at Manton at the end of 1986 after Sangster sacked Michael Dickinson . |
| 10 | Bond took over at Turf Moor shortly after Burnley had been relegated to the old Third Division . |
| 11 | Uncle brought his own horse when he took over at Low Birk Hatt , an old grey mare called Madge . |
| 12 | Tennant took over at Guinness in 1987 in the wake of the scandal following its hostile take-over of Distillers ; the company is now the seventh-biggest in Britain with a stock-market value of £10.7 billion . |
| 13 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 14 | Clough , in fact , will become the 13th player Souness has purchased for £1m or more since he took over at Rangers in April 1986 . |
| 15 | Ashcroft , who took over at Salford when Alex Murphy left in 1980 , has had two spells at the Willows , broken by a couple of seasons at Warrington between 1982 and 1984 . |
| 16 | Since Kevin Keegan took over at Newcastle , they 've enjoyed 3 wins out of six . |
| 17 | Since Kevin Keegan took over at Newcastle , they 've enjoyed 3 wins out of six . |
| 18 | In 1983 , when he took over at St Mirren , Miller was 34 and the youngest manager in the top ten . |
| 19 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
| 20 | Since Swales took over at Maine Road 20 years ago , City have won only the League Cup and more than a dozen managers have come and gone , including Peter Reid who was sacked last month . |
| 21 | In 1812 James Loch took over as Lord Stafford 's agent at Trentham in Staffordshire . |
| 22 | The Whitburn side have surprised themselves with their progress since they mapped out a five-year development plan when Bob Stokes took over as coach three years ago . |
| 23 | JOHN McCLELLAND , the former Northern Ireland defender , yesterday took over as caretaker manager of St Johnstone following the shock axing of Alec Totten . |
| 24 | Mary Hodgson , 71 , of Sycamore Lodge in Trees Park village took over as matron yesterday , care assistants swapped places with cleaners and a fellow resident became the Queen Mum . |
| 25 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |
| 26 | He was appointed managing director of United Biscuits in 1964 and took over as chairman in 1972 . |
| 27 | The CNAA machinery in the late 1960s and 1970s was powered substantially by its university membership , with major inputs from its ‘ industrial ’ members , including its first Chairman , Lord Kings Norton , and Michael ( later Sir Michael ) Clapham , who took over as Chairman in 1971 . |
| 28 | They have spent £4.5m on new players since multi-millionaire Lionel Pickering took over as chairman . |
| 29 | There was speculation on the Feethams terraces even before Alan Noble took over as chairman . |
| 30 | New recruits for the board are equally important and negotiations have continued since former director Alan Noble took over as chairman . |