Example sentences of "took a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also campaigned for maternity benefit to be paid to the mother and for maternity care to be improved , and , under Margaret Llewelyn Davies 's leadership , took a strongly pacifist line . |
| 2 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 3 | In previous years this was how the BBC treated the competition , but gradually , with its revamped Sunday Grandstand , cricket took a back seat to free-fall dominoes and the like . |
| 4 | While singer Neneh Cherry moved on to crossover fame , her fellow conspirators took a back seat . |
| 5 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 6 | Even Waterman 's own trusted experts , stylist Sharron and dancer Claire , both of whom had been a backbone of Kylie 's organisation , took a back seat as Kylie took control herself . |
| 7 | Hallett , who has slipped from seventh to 24th in the provisional world ranking list for next season , missed an easy green in the opening frame then took a back seat as rampant Wattana raced 5–0 ahead . |
| 8 | Long-term planning took a back seat in the deliberations of the senior engineers whose efforts were principally devoted to overcoming short-term problems . |
| 9 | In fact the professional golfers almost took a back seat , and it always afforded me some wry amusement when Ryder Cup golfers of repute were ignored by the spectators who were intent on getting the autograph of some star from a television soap opera . |
| 10 | So when Andrew started seeing Sarah , the Princess took a back seat . |
| 11 | It does appear that from the late 1950s he took a back seat , leaving the direction of affairs to a collective leadership : Giap as military chief , Pham Van Dong as premier , Truong Chinh as formulator of ideology , Nguyen Duy Trinh as planner and programmer and Le Duan , brought back from the south , taking over as party chief from Ho late in 1957 . |
| 12 | Then came the mythic sixties when young people suddenly acquired their own cash and really got into looking different from old(er) people and when social class momentarily took a back seat . |
| 13 | He really could n't share the burden of campaigning any more arid took a back seat . |
| 14 | Urban road construction took a back seat as new interest was shown in restrictions on existing road usage , possibilities of upgrading public transport ( as suggested by the introduction of the metro for Tyne-Wear ) , and policies on subsidized fares . |
| 15 | To some extent this was natural , for , as economic mobilisation became total , finance took a back seat to the direct controls over labour and materials . |
| 16 | The singing took a back seat while he concentrated on his soap career . |
| 17 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |