Example sentences of "[pron] take [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The death of the AHA was not the last word of its members , since the caucus moved across to a position within the new Victoria District Authority , which took over responsibility for the management of the AHA 's asylums .
2 Over the years many leading members of the BDA were involved in the running of the Board before it wound up following the emergence of Social Services Departments , which took over responsibility for the welfare of the deaf .
3 Reporters who approached the hotel just after dawn yesterday said there was no sign of the rebels who took over part of the hotel in the exclusive Escalon district of the capital .
4 They took up position between the harpoons and the fleeing whales .
5 When they took over power from the king , the ‘ magnates of the Council ’ on 11 September 1259 appointed Thomas Gresley , a reformer baron , as Justice of the southern forests , and later confirmed John d'Eyville , also a reformer baron , as Justice of the northern forests .
6 Were a seller to accept such an indemnity he would probably want to add further clauses requiring the buyer to give prompt notification of such claims , to permit him to take over conduct of the claim , not to admit liability , and to render him any necessary assistance in contesting the claim .
7 As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man .
8 Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 .
9 From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway .
10 Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize .
11 A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School .
12 His adoption led to his taking up work with the deaf .
13 They have asked that we take that on , there is a report later in the agenda with detail on that , but as far as these papers are concerned that 's simply us taking over responsibility for the best part of two million pounds ' worth of spending which the health authority will refund to us by way of a section twenty eight grant .
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