Example sentences of "[vb past] to take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when he bent to take off his boots , she said , ‘ You 're wringin' . ’ |
| 2 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 3 | Commercial interests always flocked around the point where the train stopped to take up and set down passengers and merchandise . |
| 4 | Schladming , just to the east , which tried to take on the World Cup commitment , has suffered similarly . |
| 5 | Liverpool will probably want around £750,000 for the player who Tranmere tried to take on loan earlier this season . |
| 6 | Unions tried to take over the country . |
| 7 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 8 | The society tried to take over the Dunblane to Callendar line , then the Longniddry to Haddington branch and , finally , the Alloa and Dollar line . |
| 9 | According to an Army spokesman , rebel soldiers " tried to take over the airport and [ Omdurman ] radio station in a rather pathetic way " , before being overpowered by loyalist troops . |
| 10 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 11 | In the capital , Caracas , the rebels tried to take over the government palace and the presidential residence , La Carlota airport , the Ministry of Defence , Navy and National Guard buildings and the national television station . |
| 12 | He was proud of his father , who was an earl and a king , but he wished his father stayed in Orkney all summer , as Otkel did , who had taken his son fighting once , when pirates tried to take over Foula . |
| 13 | A woman who tried to take over Swindon Town Football Club has been giving evidence against the former manager Lou Macari , who 's on trial for tax fraud . |
| 14 | John McEnroe tried to take out a copyright on it , Becker 's got more than a bit and Lendl 's goes missing when he most needs it . |
| 15 | Normally , with Dawn , I would just walk straight towards the perch , but these Harris 's hawks were really eager , and bated immediately the breeze got in their feathers ; that is , they tried to take off and fly back on their own . |
| 16 | Three months would give her a chance to pack up both her belongings and her brother 's — and perhaps whoever she found to take on her flat would pay a month 's rent in advance too . |
| 17 | The communists within the CPKI moved to take over as much power as they could for themselves in August-September and this , too , weakened the KPR . |
| 18 | Then Uncle Fred moved to take over a bigger camp for displaced persons at Bideford . |
| 19 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 20 | For anyone disposed to take on the often very satisfying task of making banners I can assure them that there are several very kind ‘ Barnabases ’ in the church whose comments and encouragements I have valued . |
| 21 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 22 | Among them was Charles Williams , who rather surprisingly left his wife and child behind to brave the Blitz in their Hampstead flat while he and his beloved secretary Celia came to take up their ( separate ) residences in Oxford . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 24 | More generally , any laissez faire connection helps very little in understanding how Darwin came to take up the problems his theorizing was to solve . |
| 25 | Even her accent would n't give her away ; all kinds of nationalities came to take up casual work in the restaurants and hotels . |
| 26 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 27 | We finished our shift at 8 and he was going at 9 , but at 8 , instead of the usual people who came to take over from us , the managing director of the company and his next-door neighbour came in their golfing clothes to pick up whatever tip was being given and we were told to push off . |
| 28 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 30 | At the same time , in some towns at least , bishops came to take over the duties of such late Roman officers as the defensores , who had been expected to defend the weak . |