Example sentences of "took part [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inconsistencies in the initial report on the crash have led some investigators to suspect that the US and Canadian governments took part in a cover-up . |
| 2 | THREE months ago President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya took part in a media event staged in the Nairobi National Park to demonstrate his country 's distaste for the ivory trade . |
| 3 | It was said to be Mrs Thatcher 's favourite television programme — indeed , she actually took part in a rehearsal . |
| 4 | In 1986 all three girls took part in a 24-hour chess marathon in Dresden . |
| 5 | Some 60 per cent of Conservative MPs who took part in a recent Gallup survey thought standards would fall , not improve , if these changes took place . |
| 6 | He has dismissed as ‘ dirtying , disgusting and unfair ’ charges in Time and the Washington Post that he took part in a gang rape at the age of nine . |
| 7 | Death overtook events only one day after the writing of this letter , when on 30 June the king took part in a joust , that ‘ peaceful ’ demonstration of the military arts which was in fact potentially lethal . |
| 8 | THE American government has seized assets of a Chilean arms dealer who allegedly took part in a complex $1 billion ( £575m ) fraud that brought defence group Ferranti to the brink of collapse . |
| 9 | In Middlesex , the number of schools playing rugby has increased by almost 200 per cent since October and at Dorking last weekend , more than 1,000 boys and girls took part in a mini-rugby event . |
| 10 | Having been beaten 20-16 by Wakefield on their own Scatcherd Lane pitch in the North East final of the National Sevens Morley took part in a telephone toss-up with Waterloo , the North West runners-up . |
| 11 | And over recent months , Dance Theatre of Harlem principals have been guesting at Covent Garden ; one of these , Virginia Johnson , took part in a Shepherd 's Bush class . |
| 12 | No. 11 Commando became involved in fighting the Vichy French in Syria , while No. 8 Commando took part in a few unsuccessful raids along the North African coast , transported into action by the Navy . |
| 13 | Heads it 's Spring … a lovely display of Easter bonnets from just a few of the 25 children who took part in a magnificent parade at the Sally Ann Playgroup , Amery Street , Alton on Friday morning . |
| 14 | Then 54 of the older pupils who recently took part in a five-day visit to Ironbridge , Shropshire , described all that they had learned , with readings , slides and models . |
| 15 | EGGS galore rolled across the playground at Camelsdale School last week when the children took part in a traditional Easter egg-rolling . |
| 16 | Other Scout and Guide movements were established at Leicester , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Liverpool , Coventry and in Glasgow which produced the first deaf Senior Scout in George Scott who took part in a Grand Rally of Senior Scouts at Ibrox Park which was inspected by the Duke of Windsor in 1931 . |
| 17 | ALTON Young Farmers took part in a three-way quiz with Binsted Growmore and the Alton National Farmers ' Union at St. Mary 's Hall , Alton last week . |
| 18 | ‘ Willy Thorne , for example took part in a ProAm game at Alsager and insisted that one of the three charities who were to receive donations just had to be the Rainbow Trust and that meant £1,400 cheque . |
| 19 | In September , over 60 young people from across the deanery took part in a ten-pin bowling evening in Warrington . |
| 20 | Kratitz recently took part in a re-recording of John Lennon 's ‘ Give Peace A Chance ’ , which was partly re-written by Sean Ono Lennon and issued by Virgin . |
| 21 | Soon after our Report was published , Mr Baker took part in a radio discussion . |
| 22 | As the meeting between LAG and the BP executives took place , local residents took part in a large protest . |
| 23 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 24 | The peanut farmer captivated America with his Colgate smile but he was a different sight three years into his presidency when he took part in a six-mile road race . |
| 25 | More than 260 women in Koenigstein , near Frankfurt , took part in a lottery with 73 winners receiving gems worth up to £2,000 . |
| 26 | Admittedly over ninety per cent of people who took part in a survey said that they would want to be told ; but it is important to stress that the respondents were all healthy people , and in illness attitudes may change . |
| 27 | Leopold and Wolfgang went to masked balls and Wolfgang gave several concerts and took part in a contest of keyboard skills with another ex-child prodigy , Ignaz von Beecke , coming off somewhat the worse . |
| 28 | Turner Village residents and art and community centre workers took part in a morning and afternoon session , working with copiers and materials on loan from Coles Office Products , Chelmsford . |
| 29 | For instance , returning to that problematic word cunt , I once took part in a discussion in which a woman explained that she did not use that word because for her , its connotations were unrelievedly pornographic . |
| 30 | He told its authors : ‘ I took part in a number of school and house plays at Charterhouse and so acquired a taste for performing in public . ’ |