Example sentences of "[adv] take [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 14 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The determined practical side of my nature soon took over from the lazy brooding one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was just taken out of the welfare every week . |
| 20 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 21 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 22 | The interior of the villa is largely taken over by the Modern Art Museum which is spread through 35 rooms that are still marvels of late eighteenth-century elegance , with luxurious decoration in plaster , parquet floors and chandeliers . |
| 23 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 24 | At the provincial level there are Land Use Planning Officers , although their time is largely taken up by the supervision of settlement schemes and in planning state farms ( Stocking 1981b ) . |
| 25 | It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated . |
| 26 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 27 | This constitutes a ritualistic burning of the books in which the characters were conceived ; they are thus taken out of the ‘ old world ’ of their origins and made to embark on an adventure in the ‘ new world ’ of Brooke-Rose 's novel . |
| 28 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 29 | So as to keep a fair balance , invitations were also given to all other parties contesting the by-election , only one of which was finally taken up by the Scottish National Party , about a week later . |
| 30 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |