Example sentences of "take [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the chief matter of Property being now not the Fruit of the Earth , and the Beasts that subsist on it , but the Earth itself ; so that which takes in and carries with it all the rest : I think it is plain , that Property in that too is acquired as the former . |
| 2 | A classic problem is posed by asking what form radiant energy takes up when confined in a container ( or cavity , to use the time-hallowed language of statistical physics ) whose walls are black . |
| 3 | But the mere fact that grass ( of a sort ) will take over and grow without effort on the farmer 's part , provides a great temptation to exploit this gift of nature without considering the implications . |
| 4 | The Guildhall Viennese Ensemble will play until 10.30pm ; then the Rainbow Dance Orchestra will take over and play for dancing . |
| 5 | So if you 'd like to go down the stairs there there are some coats oh your coats and things and I will er go and come and join you and we 'll we 'll take off and look at the outside . |
| 6 | Maxim chewed thoughtfully on something he had decided to eat rather than take out and look at ; he had chosen the hamburger . |
| 7 | I had heard that a couple who lived across the road from us , Maureen and Aubrey Edwards , took in and cared for injured birds . |
| 8 | He was born into cricket ; his grandfather started manufacturing bats and cricket equipment in the 1890s , his father carried on , and Stuart and his brother Percy eventually took over and built on their foundations to make it internationally successful . |
| 9 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 10 | Ideologically , he would not shift his ground ; politically , however , he began to tack to the prevailing wind , giving his regime an appearance of popular , constitutional legitimacy , and gradually taking over and presenting as his own the idea of reinstating the monarchy . |
| 11 | We waited in the shed while rain boomed and clattered on to the metal roof , and no aircraft took off or landed for hour after hour . |
| 12 | They just took off and left for good . |
| 13 | They managed to get it going , then took off and landed on a star . |
| 14 | An hour after the Fuchida 's aircraft had left , the second wave of 170 Japanese aircraft led by Lt/Cdr Shigekazu Shimazaki took off and headed for Oahu . |
| 15 | ‘ It started as a short project for an article but the whole subject took off and turned into a major research field . ’ |
| 16 | She could describe weather conditions so realistically as to make her audience shiver or sweat , and children would find themselves taking off and putting on a garment in mid-tale . |
| 17 | If you were at Gatwick recently and wondered why all the planes were taking off and landing on the taxi-way , well it was all because of Rentokil Hygiene . |
| 18 | Instead she and Jennifer absent-mindedly watched aircraft taking off and landing on the company runway , then another thought suddenly struck her and she said , ‘ Do you know why he came back from Australia ? ’ |
| 19 | If you have become fairly proficient at the nose-in hover , you may find that this figure is easier to perform by standing with your back to the wind and taking off and landing in the nose-in position . |
| 20 | It 's just one I 'm taking out and lying on the floor . |
| 21 | After a year of arguments , Citrine finally relented and the EDA 's local work was taken on and expanded by the Area Boards , though its London headquarters , with a staff of 67 , survived as a formally separate organisation but with its £150000 annual budget financed principally by the industry . |
| 22 | Their involvement in those parts of the management plan in which they have not been previously interested will be taken on and driven by the possibly irresistible surge of the whole school 's development . |
| 23 | Taken in and taught by rancher Turnstall , he turns into a raging avenger when Turnstall is shot . |
| 24 | The complete word is taken in and segmented into individual characters or strokes ( e.g. ( Higgins & Whitrow , 1984 ) , ( Wright , 1989 ) ) . |
| 25 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 26 | As her natural mother had been unable to care for her , she had been taken in and looked after by an uncle and aunt . |
| 27 | After the hearing Mr Rodmell , said : ‘ Great swathes of beach are being taken in and put under the banner of Sites of Special Scientific Interest , which makes things very difficult for us when we need bait . |
| 28 | The pitched roof of the main block was re-tiled and large areas of the painted external weatherboarding ( including the whole of the rear gable ) were taken down and replaced with new material backed with a lining of bituminous felt to better exclude the wind . |
| 29 | and erm and erm I would really formally ask the board if , if there is any objection to our deliberations being recorded and taken down and used for another purpose . |
| 30 | ‘ I ought to make it quite clear to you , ma'am , ’ he murmured in the taxi , ‘ that any knickers you may be wearing may well be taken down and used in evidence . ’ |