Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] take [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aga-sagas have taken over from the steamy sex bonkbusters of the Eighties . |
| 2 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Guitarist 's Readers ' Ads have taken over as the foremost private buying , selling , swapping and personnel advertising service around . |
| 4 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 5 | Industrial parks now stand where pepper plantations used to be , modern buses have taken over from the rickshaw and Singaporeans now live in high-rise apartments rather than the traditional kampongs . |
| 6 | Darkness has descended and the mosquitoes have taken over from the enemy mortars . |