Example sentences of "had [adv] take [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 2 | ( Jiang Zemin , CCP general secretary , was elected to succeed him , as the only candidate , on April 4 : Jiang had already taken over from Deng , in November 1989 , the chairmanship of the party CMC . ) |
| 3 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 4 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |
| 5 | It considered that the James Committee had not taken sufficiently into account the experience and potential of the polytechnics in teacher education . |
| 6 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 7 | Another problem which was uncovered during the planning process relates back to one of the variables which Jones suggested that government predictions had not taken fully into account . |
| 8 | We argued that Western rulers had finally taken out against Saddam not because he was a monster but because he had broken loose and was no longer their monster . |
| 9 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 10 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 11 | On the day before the April 18 announcement , the President of the Serbian state presidency , Slobodan Milosevic , had declared that Serbia 's own internal affairs secretariat had now taken over from the federal authorities in administering public security in the province . |
| 12 | If only the clothes had been plainer and more suitable for the vicar 's wife of such a poor parish , ’ Sophia lamented , holding up the lame cocktail dress whose belt Faustina had now taken out into the hall . |
| 13 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 14 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 15 | He used to be the crier , but had recently taken over from Fred Harrison who had proclaimed the fair annually for the last thirty years . |
| 16 | She had also been surprised at how easy she had found it to talk to him , about all the private , intimate failures and successes of her life ; fascinated to hear about his problems with the privately owned Wyndham International Banking Corporation , which he had recently taken over from his father . |