Example sentences of "he took [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |
| 2 | He took over the firm with some very clear ambitions . |
| 3 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 4 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 5 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 6 | He loved his ‘ Jocks ’ without a trace of condescension , and when he took over the regiment as lieutenant-colonel in North Africa and Italy , his double-barrelled beer name earned him the affectionate sobriquet of ‘ Colonel Screwtop ’ . |
| 7 | Bell was a supporter of the oral system , and upon learning of the difficulties faced by the Academy , he took over the teaching of the deaf children in the school for two months until the arrival of a Mr. Jones all the way from the U.S.A. to take over from him . |
| 8 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 9 | But only days after he took over the job , he 'd got the fright of his life . |
| 10 | Hong Kong 's achievement in Catania has been Simpkin 's first success since he took over the Hong Kong representative side . |
| 11 | That application form put him on the ladder , not only to the top of the Japanese profession , but to international recognition — on 1 January this year he took over the chairmanship of the International Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 12 | I rousted Thessy out of his bed with a cup of tea , then went to my own bed as he took over the wheel . |
| 13 | He did not see any sign of the runaway animals but later on that night the local policeman called on him and he took over the task of keeping a look out . |
| 14 | He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago . |
| 15 | When " Reggie " Hughes left , he took over the full teaching of art ii , the school . |
| 16 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 17 | He took over the prosecution . |
| 18 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 19 | In 1441 he took over the work from two Venetian architects and supervised the work for the next three decades . |
| 20 | He took over the health brief with a reputation as a social policy reformer , having previously reviewed the social security system with the aim of making it fairer . |
| 21 | Spittals had insisted it should be laid when he took over the office . |
| 22 | Castro later admitted to Herbert Matthews that when he took over the refineries he did not know whether or not Moscow would supply Cuba with oil ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 23 | He began writing for Justice , the weekly paper of the SDF , which first appeared in January 1884 , and two years later he took over the editor 's position from H. M. Hyndman [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | On his father 's death in 1867 he took over the business , and in the 1871 census he was described as ‘ chemist and dealer in foreign stamps ’ . |
| 25 | Later in his career , when his delicate health forced him to give up racing , he took over the Danebury stables from John Day , and became renowned as a trainer of steeplechasers as well as flat racers . |
| 26 | He could see that refrigeration would bring about a complete change in people 's lifestyles and in 1880 he took over the patents of the Bell–Coleman cold-air machine and developed what was known as the dry air refrigerator . |
| 27 | Because he took over the reins at such a late stage in 1763 Giardini was unable to entice to London either the best Italian singers or a famous composer . |
| 28 | Caesar found a census of the population in the Greek script when he took over the camp of the Helvetii ( Bell . |
| 29 | ‘ Has young Meredith changed any of his wild ways since he took over the reins at the manor ? ’ |
| 30 | He took over the premiership in January 1974 after the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ) ( ETA ) had killed his predecessor , Adml. |