Example sentences of "took [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the brief for a one-person project I took on with the late schools council some four years ago . |
| 2 | Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital — including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action — gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself . |
| 3 | The problem is that UK households , like US ones , are struggling to repay the debts they took on in the boom years of the 1980s , he explained . |
| 4 | Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions . |
| 5 | My combat jacket , knife , bags , catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me . |
| 6 | I took down from the bookshelf above the bed a hardback edition of Hugh Brogan 's History of the United States . |
| 7 | His vice president Gerald Ford took over for the remainder of his term but lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter . |
| 8 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |
| 9 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 10 | And such a change from that of Leo Beenhakker , the urbane Dutchman from whom Toshack took over at the Bernabeu last summer . |
| 11 | When I took over at the Department of Health and Social Security , I was under no illusion about the difficulty of my job . |
| 12 | Brown — formerly on the coaching staff at Chesham — took over at the Diadora League Premier Division club in December , when George Borg resigned after a disagreement over playing policy . |
| 13 | The evidence in the two years since he took over at the club suggests Mr O'Neill 's best efforts will be enough to secure promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 14 | She nearly dropped the mug but her brain took over at the last instant . |
| 15 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 16 | In the main changes , Nohemí Sanín Posada de Rubio ( PSC ) , formerly ambassador to Venezuela , became the first woman to be appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs ( replacing Luís Fernando Jaramillo Correa , who became permanent representative at the UN ) ; Jorge Ospina Sardi ( NFD ) , the former National Planning Director , became Minister of Economic Development , replacing Ernesto Samper Pizano ( PL ) , who was switched to the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade ; Alfonso López Caballero ( PL ) , formerly ambassador to France , was given Agriculture ; Carlos Holmes Trujillo García ( PL ) , mayor of Calí , became Minister of Education ; Mauricio Vargas Linares ( PL ) , the president 's media adviser , took over at the Ministry of Communications ; and Juan Camilo Restrepo was given Mines and Energy . |
| 17 | R. A. Butler , who took over at the Board in 1941 , warned about this major point . |
| 18 | Jeremy joined us as a Fellow of the Association with a long and distinguished career in the industryand took over at the helm of a dedicated and well-motivated teamat Trinity Road . |
| 19 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 20 | Glenn Hoddle raised more than a few eyebrows when he took over at the County Ground last April . |
| 21 | Oxford United 's new manager Denis Smith and his assistant Malcolm Crosby took over at the Manor Ground today ( WES NEXT ) |
| 22 | Clark , who took over at the City Ground from Brian Clough last month and has already sold Clough 's son Nigel to Liverpool , said : ‘ Roy seems to be under the misapprehension that he can sign for anybody he likes . |
| 23 | Shute took over at the Northern League Second Division club in November , and together with assistant Peter Boddy has pulled the club out of any immediate danger . |
| 24 | took over at the top of the second division after they Cleveland 2–0 with a goal in each half by Colin Howey . |
| 25 | As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary . |
| 26 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |
| 27 | Couples took over as the American No 1 at the Bay Hill Invitational in March and stayed there , although he admits it was a struggle . |
| 28 | PUBLISHER Robert Maxwell 's widow Betty took over as the ‘ puppet master ’ behind secret family trusts in Liechtenstein when he drowned , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 29 | In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ . |
| 30 | But Valli then dropped back to third when club secretary and veteran runner Brian took over on the penultimate third stage . |