Example sentences of "have recently taken [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has recently taken up some form of exercise will tell that it has brought them enhanced mental energy and concentration , the ability to sleep more deeply and a feeling of well-being . |
| 2 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 3 | Celebrated couturier , Patrick Lavoix , has recently taken over as world designer for Dior , controlling the global direction for the label . |
| 4 | Headline has recently taken on the challenge of some of the Queen Anne Press list — the Rothmans and Playfair sports books . |
| 5 | Minto summoned the man who had recently taken over the Headington practice from the household 's former practitioner , Dr Wood . |
| 6 | This was not difficult because his own ideas on the way forward matched those of his Chief of Defence Staff , Lord Mountbatten , and his Chief Scientific Adviser , Sir Solly Zuckerman , both of whom had recently taken over their posts . |
| 7 | We were examined by the Director Of the Musikhochschule , Franz Schmidt ; he had recently taken over . |
| 8 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |
| 9 | The citizens of Pisa by then had recently taken over its government from the archbishop — they had formed the commune of consuls in the early 1080s which was to be a model for innumerable cities in Tuscany and Lombardy and Umbria to follow in the next two generations , the characteristic Italian commune . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was in a fold of high ground on the northern borders of the vale that William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy had recently taken up residence in a red-brick mansion called Racedown Lodge , a house combining Georgian elegance and merchant stolidity , and quite likely to be , as tradition asserts , the original of Sir Walter Elliot 's Kellynch Hall in Jane Austen 's Persuasion . |
| 14 | As from January , the Cranleigh class will be taught by Marion Grainger , seen above at her new home — The Queen 's Head , Bucks Green — which she and her husband have recently taken over . |
| 15 | Can you please tell me what the rules are as regards holding cash , as I have recently taken out a personal equity plan ? |