Example sentences of "have [adv] taken off " 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 | Since the formation of the BWG and the LGWG , the administrative workers and the volunteers have set up their own autonomous groups , and Disabled Action has just taken off . |
| 3 | This can be explained in part by the large numbers of dogs that were imported initially , but it is clear that the breed has really taken off and is now firmly established in the top ten most popular breeds in New Zealand . |
| 4 | This regional literacy programme has really taken off . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The sales build-up reached Denmark and the UK in March and has now taken off in Spain , Portugal and Iceland . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 12 | ‘ Why is it snooker has never taken off in America ? ’ |
| 13 | I put a lot of it down to Harry Enfield ; just this week he 'd really taken off . |
| 14 | ‘ He could have just taken off . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 've all taken off together on this flight and there are n't any parachutes in this aircraft . |
| 16 | It was more than possible that Zhukov had already taken off more prints for himself . |
| 17 | Romantic Colin had sent the telex to Orlando airport but the aircraft had already taken off . |
| 18 | William Guthrie , owner of the New Albert , said it was sad that the catering facility had not taken off . |
| 19 | Four Tornados had just taken off — heading in loose formation towards the North Sea . |
| 20 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 21 | The two-seater Chipmunk aircraft had just taken off when it unexpectedly veered sharpley back towards the runway . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'd forgotten there was a new pair in the wardrobe with , still with the labels on I had n't taken off . |
| 25 | He stayed there , watching it taxi away , and only went out to the cab rank when the plane had actually taken off . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Things have really taken off , our whole output has gone up a notch . |