Example sentences of "take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was took on to be able to keep the written terms and conditions . |
| 2 | One of the reason you get took on , I mean , it were only a borstal when he went were n't it ? |
| 3 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 4 | Word is it took only three days to boot Unix on the prototype . |
| 5 | ‘ Just like old times , ai n't it , before you was took so poorly , ’ said Gloria . |
| 6 | You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ? |
| 7 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 8 | No , granddad 's never really took off |
| 9 | Which normally he 's took off |
| 10 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 11 | It 'll just be took automatically |
| 12 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 13 | yeah he said oh Margaret wages have been took out me car he said I ge , I 'll get it at some point for you Margaret he said when I go at the bank but he said , yours was taken out Jack 's car |
| 14 | I remember as clear as day , standing talking to Penny and I was calling their plumber , I 'll always remember that and er I was quite took back and Penny said ooh she 's been very good to me |
| 15 | Cos I said to her get some of that cough stuff cos I 've only took about three times this . |
| 16 | ‘ He was took quite sudden . ’ |
| 17 | I can tell school you been took poorly again . ’ |
| 18 | ones that are took seriously . |
| 19 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |
| 20 | Above our hearing , bats flit around in total darkness , judging their distance from objects by emitting high-pitched bursts of sound and timing how long it takes fro the echo of the sound to bounce back . |
| 21 | A progressively tax and transfer system takes most from the rich and give most to the poor . |
| 22 | That takes incredibly high performance , competitiveness , winning all . |
| 23 | He rises and takes on imaginary partner |
| 24 | The real work of acting takes on a different dimension . |
| 25 | It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment . |
| 26 | Tennis legend Maria Esther Bueno takes on a new challenge as Chairman of Tennis Interlink Limited , a new venture launched to create a unique , membership base , international network for tennis-related information and services . |
| 27 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 28 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 29 | With the Black & Decker Proline PL28 Rotary Hammer Drill , drilling holes in masonry and concrete takes on a whole new meaning . |
| 30 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |