Example sentences of "have [adv] taken off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 2 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 3 | ‘ This has really taken off for us in a big way , ’ George told Sunday Life after a sports luncheon at Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Friday . |
| 4 | THE career of David Loder , who started off last season with just two winners , has really taken off in 1993 and the Newmarket trainer looks set to reach his half-century this month . |
| 5 | The sales build-up reached Denmark and the UK in March and has now taken off in Spain , Portugal and Iceland . |
| 6 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client-server applications . |
| 7 | However , even with the tens of millions of personal computers and workstations in use around the world , networking and network usage still has n't taken off in a big way , the report says , because two things are needed : multi-tasking operating systems and the means to develop client/server applications . |
| 8 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 9 | ‘ Why is it snooker has never taken off in America ? ’ |
| 10 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fee-based activities such as fund management have also taken off in Singapore because of its strategic location in southeast Asia 's fast expanding financial markets . |