Example sentences of "who take [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her major musical films included Evergreen ( 1934 ) , an untidy but profitable adaptation of a West End stage success ; First a Girl ( 1935 ) , in which Matthews amusingly impersonates a female impersonator in a British version of the German Viktor und Viktoria , and the fascinating It 's Love Again ( 1936 ) , in which Matthews is a struggling dancer who takes on the character of a fictional celebrity dreamed up by two desperate newspaper men . |
| 2 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 3 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 4 | And Wing Cdr Geoffrey Smith , who takes on Robert Atkins in similarly marginal South Ribble , is a retired surgeon who was educated at Cambridge . |
| 5 | Quite early there came the contradiction that anyone who takes on an extreme diet must meet . |
| 6 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 7 | When the appointment of three arbitrators is required , each party chooses one arbitrator , and the arbitrators-dual appointed-dual in this way choose the third arbitrator and it is he who takes on the presidency of the arbitration authority . |
| 8 | And one of the two new caps , the Australian Brian Smith who takes over at fly-half from the injured Paul Dean , has had a less than spectacular season with Leinster . |
| 9 | Michael Portillo , who takes over , brings with him the label of Thatcherite hero-in-waiting . |
| 10 | Willie Carson , who takes over on Glasgow , may initiate a double with Tiger Claw in the Town Purse Handicap ( 2.30 ) . |
| 11 | The night god , who takes over when the day is done , is in the act of rising with his load . |
| 12 | But rumour has it that a sevens tournament is going to be organised in Moscow in September to decide who takes over the Soviet place : Russia , Ukraine , Georgia , Latvia or Kazakhstan . |
| 13 | President-elect Bill Clinton , who takes over from Bush on January 20 , said Mr Bush 's decision gave the message : ‘ If you work for the government you 're above the law . ’ |
| 14 | But the more pragmatic chief executive Sir Colin Marshall , who takes over from Lord King next year , is thought to have cautioned against pouring millions of pounds into a legal fight with no guarantee of victory . |
| 15 | Mr Condon , 45 , currently Chief Constable of Kent who takes over as the Met 's youngest-ever Commissioner in February , added that bombs still went off in Northern Ireland despite having the army on the streets . |
| 16 | As Chris Llewellyn Smith , who takes over as director at CERN next year , points out , the unstarted LHC is less than $3 billion from completion all told , while the SSC , despite being $2 billion in the hole , still has $8 billion to go . |
| 17 | Who takes over when Butcher gives up ? |
| 18 | Now Birt , who takes over as BBC director general in March , is determined to cut the Corporation 's losses — and axe up to 8,000 jobs too . |
| 19 | It was said when he first arrived at Wigan that he had a great act to follow after Lowe but that becomes even more relevant this time for fellow Aussie John Dorahy who takes over the reins . |
| 20 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 21 | Sometimes we know people very well , but it still helps does n't it if somebody else comes in that there 's some sort of system there that somebody else who takes over your section can find out exactly who 's received what . |
| 22 | A new chairman has been elected , Phil Metcalfe , who takes over from Richard Cole . |
| 23 | Walter is backed up by Graham Nicholson , who takes over in July after working with him for 18 months . |
| 24 | But Haslam points out that the competitor who takes up the new technology when the patents expire does not suffer from this halo effect . |
| 25 | It is not difficult to think of other examples — the man who takes up golf to be seen with the ‘ right sort of people ’ the competitor more interested in the prize than the process of winning it ; the senior common-room member who can not converse without showing off . |
| 26 | The new head of care is Jennifer Arthur , one of the trained staff , who takes up her appointment on Monday . |
| 27 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 28 | A Scottish lord told King James that Andrewes ‘ did play with his text as a jackanapes does , who takes up a thing and tosses and plays with it and then takes up another and plays with it . |
| 29 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 30 | In The Games , he was cast as British milkman Harry Hayes , who takes up athletics for a joke , is spotted by a former champion runner and ends up in an Olympic Marathon . |