Example sentences of "have [adv] taken [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of this activity has meant that aircraft and artefact restoration has necessarily taken to the back-burner , but , to quote one of the volunteers : ‘ no building , no aircraft in the long term ’ . |
| 2 | Even the hardened expert will find something which illuminates in an original way some concept he has long taken for granted . |
| 3 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 4 | She has finally taken off that pretentious pair of shades . |
| 5 | Its leader , Alex Salmond , has lately taken to calling himself a Social Democrat , but this week his deputy , Jim Sillars , was again proclaiming full-blooded socialism . |
| 6 | And possibly also look forward to extending an England career that has already taken in student and Under-21 honours . |
| 7 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 8 | The city of Padua has also taken in hand its rich holdings of ceramics . |
| 9 | Inner London is dominated by teaching hospitals and medical schools and has traditionally taken in a significant number of patients from outside its area . |
| 10 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 11 | The first is that the form which study skills development has typically taken in project schools is by no means at the radical end of the spectrum in terms of the different ideologies of education which we described in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | ‘ The dog has really taken to hurdles racing and will improve even more with experience he can only get better , ’ said racing manager Jimmy Nunn . |
| 13 | The Legion 's Cheshire County treasurer Ron Hulse has now taken up Mr Kenealy 's fight . |
| 14 | Perhaps they are right , though the SNP has now taken to calling Labour ‘ Tartan Tories ’ , a jibe once more fairly directed at them . |
| 15 | Little wonder Roy Hattersley has now taken to the pages of the London Evening Standard , complaining that the glitz and the glamour hid the message — as though , somehow , he had been a disinterested spectator in the affair . |
| 16 | Layla has now taken to curling up in the cubby hole of the desk to answer these calls . |
| 17 | Mr Mellor has now taken to describing himself as a ‘ victim of circula-tion wars . ’ |
| 18 | There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage . |
| 19 | The shortage of Pentiums is so bad the industry has reportedly taken to what some people call ‘ tea-bagging , ’ moving their precious chip supply from system to system to prove to customers their box works , then quickly back to the treasure vault . |
| 20 | I am delighted that Haringey councillor Ian Willmore has rediscovered the problems of Tottenham and has even taken to pondering the question of which candidate for the Labour leadership is best equipped to tackle these problems ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 21 | ‘ She chews gum , she likes going to Guns N' Roses concerts and wearing funky clothes — she has even taken to wearing black nail varnish . |
| 22 | ( Has he , too , noted in the informal engagement announcement photographs the New York Times has recently taken to running that the couples more often look like siblings than prospective husbands and wives ? |
| 23 | Even Pete Wilson , the state 's usually pessimistic governor , has recently taken to making speeches about ‘ the California comeback ’ . |
| 24 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
| 25 | It was the unsettling effect he had on her , making her question everything she 'd always taken for granted . |
| 26 | He was doing it again , she thought with some amazement — putting her on the spot and forcing her to examine things she 'd always taken for granted . |
| 27 | Besides , I 'd never taken to Agnes . |
| 28 | Particularly was this so because the British accountancy profession played a more constructive role in the preparatory stages of the two Directives than our professional bodies had hitherto taken in relation to EC proposals . |
| 29 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 30 | Tracing a line in a north-easterly direction , that followed the path that James had already taken towards the Chilterns where he was known to have relatives , the police were able to predict that James would surface in either Ipsden or Stoke Row , two tiny neighbouring hamlets . |