Example sentences of "[v-ing] to take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How wonderful , I thought , if today 's humans could find themselves on the shores of England seeing and getting mixed up with Caesar 's army in 54 BC , landing to take over the country ; be in burning Rome as Nero fiddled ; get involved in Europe 's tragic thirty years war , etc. , etc . |
| 2 | So the Minister has to be very clear , when he comes to the Dispatch Box , whether any company applying to take over STG subsidiaries will be required to take on board the specifications laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee . |
| 3 | She said they were taken off waiting list after applying to take over the tenancy at Heydean Road in 1954 . |
| 4 | They were taken off after applying to take over the tenancy at Heydean Road in 1954 . |
| 5 | Many of the biggest companies are refusing to take on new clients with such cars , and are jacking up the premiums on existing business . |
| 6 | Dentists are refusing to take on new Health Service Patients . |
| 7 | When the men were starved out at the beginning of April 1890 and the union had capitulated , the organisation celebrated its triumph by refusing to take back men who wore the union " button " and required those who were re-employed to sign " The Document " , undertaking to work harmoniously with non-unionists and imported labour . |
| 8 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 9 | Charge cards companies will not be looking to take on those customers with lower incomes who do not want to pay , or find it difficulty in paying , high credit-card interest rates . |
| 10 | He 's always looking to take on the back row and his sheer physical strength is phenomenal … |
| 11 | This was where Jesus was going , because he knew that to take to take something over and let's face it Jesus was looking to take over take something over to fulfil something and he was hoping to fulfil Judaism to take it over , to fulfil it , he had to go to where it mattered . |
| 12 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |
| 13 | The Regional Arts Boards are straining at the leash , wanting to take over as many of the Arts Council 's responsibilities as they can get . |
| 14 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 15 | The energy and enthusiasm black youth have for certain sports and the disproportionately high number wanting to take up sport as a career provides at least the initial indication that they see in successful black sportsmen models for themselves . |
| 16 | I just , it 's just a sort of an idea at this stage , I 'm not wanting to take up ogres of time on this , but |
| 17 | Even a woman wanting to take on help with child-care may have to consider whether or not she will make the decision herself or whether her husband or even the child itself will become involved . |
| 18 | He fondly hopes that in the meantime talented managers wo n't be deterred from seeking to take on top jobs because of the greater demands . |
| 19 | Minch had long ago taught him the rule among eagles that unless an eagle is seeking to take over territory then he should leave a pair to rear their young in peace . |
| 20 | During this trial period a number of useful lessons were learned , not least of which was that we were correct in attempting to take on only one medium sized location and only progress after this had been successfully completed . |
| 21 | They can also help one another to defeat an attack by rival male baboons that are attempting to take over their shared females . |
| 22 | The most serious accusation is that they are attempting to take over leading British orthodox synagogues by stealth . |
| 23 | On Jan. 20 the chairman of the National Security Court announced that " about 20 " people had been charged with murder , treason and attempting to take over the government by force . |
| 24 | Attempting to take up a post abroad without any preparatory updating could be courting disaster . |
| 25 | Some of the scenes , such as the ‘ fly-by-wire ’ shots of an Allison-powered unmanned replica P–40 attempting to take off during the attack , did not go as planned but actually turned out better . |
| 26 | Sometimes when the two meet it forms an interesting scene as on the occasion that the recent Waterloo to Exeter service arrived at Andover and there was a momentary pause as the diesel locomotive came off the train and passed ‘ Sir Lamiel ’ waiting to take over . |
| 27 | The magistrate Di Pietro has become a national hero , the old parties have been weakened and new forces are waiting to take over . |
| 28 | Almost 9 per cent of the men aged between twenty and sixty-four resident in England and Wales during the 1983 survey reported that they were unemployed , and this total excluded those who were waiting to take up jobs . |
| 29 | One of the highjackers then detonated a bomb which shattered the fuselage , causing the plane to land on top of a fully laden Boeing seven five seven that was waiting to take off . |
| 30 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |