Example sentences of "and take [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other joint agreements included the assignment of individual leaders of member countries to supervise and take responsibility for " implementing action " in six key areas identified by an independent West Indian commission . |
| 2 | Di Tella took a personal interest in the lives of his workers , giving gifts at weddings and on the birth of children and taking responsibility for the health and welfare of the workers and their families . |
| 3 | A crucial clement in family therapy involves encouraging the autonomy of family members in working out their own solutions to problems and taking responsibility for their own actions , the therapist acting largely as an independent facilitator . |
| 4 | While he ran thorough hands and eyes over his shattered body , Kathleen started cleaning up the chest area ready for the heart monitor after checking the IV line that was running in Haemacel and taking blood for cross-matching , dodging round the radiographer who had brought the portable in and was taking X-rays . |
| 5 | We got off and took cover for a while , then came up and got another bus to Fulham . |
| 6 | He began to grow tobacco , raising some capital from Abraham Burrell , but Henry Somerscales was his main partner , for Somerscales had learned in Holland how to cultivate tobacco , and took responsibility for the sale of the matured crop . |
| 7 | Mr Waldron has told the jury that McLean , who was a heavy drinker and took medication for angina , asthma and rheumatism , suffered from a mental abnormality which severely impaired her responsibility for her actions . |
| 8 | And when father came and took mother for his wife , to live with her and to take care of her , the little egg began to grow and grow into a real little baby . |
| 9 | At the moment it is theoretically possible for a qualified nurse with 20 years ' break in service to be put in charge of an acute ward , and to take responsibility for the management and allocation of staff , even though she may not have any recent or relevant experience . |
| 10 | The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine . |
| 11 | to help mother persevere with feeding Darren , increase his calorie intake , and take responsibility for his weight gain |
| 12 | Fireworks is chartered to co-ordinate varied but related businesses to ensure early marketing of leading-edge multimedia systems ; create joint ventures and alliances with other firms ; put up initial funding for promising , pioneering multimedia services under development by entrepreneurs outside IBM ; and take responsibility for IBM 's worldwide multimedia marketing strategy and co-ordinate it across lines of business . |
| 13 | Assertive people respect themselves and other people and take responsibility for their actions and choices . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) New editors and new referees should take into account , and take responsibility for , the views and decisions of their predecessors . |
| 15 | This move away from the traditional specialisation which was a feature of local government , has meant that generic workers need to develop financial skills and take responsibility for budgets . |
| 16 | Those companies propose to reduce the hours of the already not well paid workers to below the level where those companies have to pay national insurance and take responsibility for pension payments , sick pay and holiday pay — all the things that we used quaintly to associate with civilisation . |
| 17 | It also seems that the University of Oxford should break the tradition of centuries and take responsibility for what its members do to one another ’ , and I think that 's called ‘ policing ’ . |
| 18 | Wheatstone 's work in telegraphy seemed to show that electricity travelled about as fast as light , and Faraday believed that it must go just as fast ; he also believed that gravity must be analogous to other attractive forces , and take time for its propagation , though there was no evidence for this . |
| 19 | Give somebody a lift and take cash for it and we 've got you , so you might have to be very careful who you travel with , if you get my drift . ’ |
| 20 | Assessment of how successful an event has been depends largely on feedback , and , if possible , the organisers should get together afterwards to hear comments and take note for future reference . |