Phrasal Verbs With TAKE in English

• take phrasal verbs,
• take phrasal verbs’ meanings,
• using take phrasal verbs in a sentence.

• Take back,
• Take off,
• Take after,
• Take against,
• Take away,
• Take apart
• Take down,
• Take in,
• Take off,
• Take on,
• Take out,
• Take out of,
• Take out on, 
• Take over.

Examples;

• She takes after her mother.
• I take after my sister with my love of roses.
• He is very energetic. He takes after his grandfather in that respect.
• I think the children don’t take after their father at all.
• Who do you take after your father or mother?

Examples;

• He took against me.
• I take against him. Because he is not sympathetic.
• After she imitated my project, I took against her.

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• He will take the machine apart to see what the problem is.
• I took it apart and found what was wrong.
• She is taking apart the bed.
• Can you take the jukebox apart? 
• Either he takes it apart or it takes him apart.

Examples;

• The teacher will take apart our essays in front of the class.
• She took apart the scene in detail.

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• I will take you apart.
• They really take us apart with a high score. 

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• I don’t need this book. You can take it away.
• Mothers always threaten their children to take their toys away.
• He didn’t take the cat away.
• Human rights aren’t taken away.
• Give me the knife. I wil take it away from you.
• Police officers take four people away.
• Take him away from me.

Examples;

• If the hat is small, you can take it back.
• She doesn’t like this skirt so she will take it back.
• If this machine doesn’t work, you can take it back within 30 days.
• I took the computer back because it was faulty.

Examples;

• Why will you take her back?
• I think the woman will never take him back.

Examples;

• The song took me back to my adolescence.
• This picture takes me back to being 10 years old.

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• They need to take down the curtains to be cleaned.
• We will take the picture down on the wall and replace it with another picture.

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• If I have a pen or pencil, I can take your phone number down.
• We should take down your address.
• She takes down the messages that come in.

Examples;

• I will take you down, you will see soon.
• Those information took the senator down last week. 

Examples;

• It will take a long time to take in what they were saying.
• This movie is very interesting. It is impossible to take it in at once.
• It is difficult to take in the reason of this illness.
• At first I couldn’t take it in.
• Suddenly he took in much of the teacher said.

Examples;

• We will persuade him to take them in.
• Some families took foreign people in.

Examples;

• She took off her clothes.
• We should take our hats off.
• This product will be taken off the the shelves.
• Please, take the price label off this present.
• The police officer took off the handcuffs.
• Drivers should not take the belt off while driving.

Examples;

• I will take 10 days off in August.
• She should take some time off to go to a doctor.
• My father is planning to take two weeks off in this summer.
• Hey! I will take off work. Why don’t we have an adventure together!

Examples;

• The plane should take off on time.
• We will take off at 1o a.m and arrive in London at 12 a.m.
• The plane is about to take off for England.
• Our plane will soon take off.
• That birds take off vertically.
• How does an insect take off from the ground?
• She arrived at the airport after the aircraft took off.
• The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off.

Example;

• This situation will take millions off the price of a house.

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• She took on extra responsibilities.
• The woman takes too much on. Probably she will be ill.
• I can’t take on too much work.
• We shouldn’t take on more responsibilities than we can handle.
• I am willing to take on this job.

Examples;

• The dentist will take out my tooth next week.
• I think we should take out the bad parts of this.
• He had taken out the wallet from his pocket .
• If you want, you can take out my speech.

Examples;

• All of us should take out life insurance policy.
• I will take out a loan to buy a new car.

Examples;

• I took $5,000 out from the bank.
• She went to the bank to take out money.

Examples;

• My boyfriend will take me out to the cinema tomorrow.
• We took them out for drinks.
• The child’s mother is taking him out for a pizza.
• I will take you out for some time.

Examples;

• They are taking out their rivals.
• He is trying to take out the bus station.

Example;

• Playing football takes it out of us.

Example;

• Let’s go out. It may be take us out of ourselves.

Examples;

• I know you have had a trouble but you shouldn’t take it out on me.
• My boss always takes his anger out on us.

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• I had taken over responsibility for this work.
• She will take over the project when her companion is on vacation.
• Who did the hospital take over?
• We had better to take over from him for a while.
• I took over as a president after Tom resigned.

Examples;

• That company was taken over in January.
• We will take over the small company.

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• Will we take to him?
• The public is taking to this president.
• I take to tennis.

Examples;

• She takes to coming very late to the school.
• We should take to drink.
• I have taken to wearing sunglasses in recent days.

Examples;

• I will take to my bed.
• The cat took to the hills.

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• I will take up basketball.
• Many people left their jobs to take up farming.

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• I will take them up  on their offer.
• The man took us up on a new challenge.