Example sentences of "[adv] take [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did ! |
| 2 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 3 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 4 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 5 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 6 | The decision was apparently taken unilaterally by the Nigerian authorities , and appeared to reflect on Quainoo 's handling of the command , particularly the incident which led to the killing of Doe . |
| 7 | Andrew hesitated for a second , apparently taken aback by the ease with which he had gained his free dinner . |
| 8 | In no other human discipline , not in philosophy , nor science , nor music , is it believed that there has been a particular revelation of God in history , so that that point in history is then necessarily taken up into the discipline . |
| 9 | Anyone whose experience of Liszt does n't extend much beyond the odd Hungarian Rhapsody , paraphrase , Liebesträum , and les Prèludes will , I imagine , be somewhat taken aback by the relative harmonic conservatism , and unadorned purity of style . |
| 10 | Sharpe was somewhat taken aback by the girl 's directness , but he nodded . |
| 11 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 12 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 13 | Patients were then treated with 120 mg tripotassium dicitratobismuthate ( DeNol , Brocades , Weybridge , Surrey , UK ) four times daily for one month , 400 mg metronidazole three times daily , and 500 mg tetracycline four times daily taken concurrently for the first two weeks of treatment . |
| 14 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 15 | The match itself was 12-a-side , the decision to make it so taken late in the day . |
| 16 | Moran was so taken aback by the way Sheila had seized the envelope from his hand that he stood in amazement . |
| 17 | He was so taken aback by the poverty of the Tanzanian secondary school that he determined to do something about it when he returned to his own school , St Aloysius College in Glasgow . |
| 18 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 19 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 20 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 21 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 22 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 23 | ‘ During that interim period Doctor Who just took off with the Daleks in a way that none of us could have imagined , and after that there was no more discussion about it coming off the air . |
| 24 | The determined practical side of my nature soon took over from the lazy brooding one . |
| 25 | Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published . |
| 26 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 27 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 28 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 29 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 30 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |