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Example sentences for "taking office"

  • Your Majesty has not been left by your Ministers, but something very like it;' and His Majesty was rejoiced when the Duke at once acquiesced in taking office.

  • Nothing was talked of but a dissolution, of Peel's taking office, and many people confidently predicted that new elections would produce a Tory majority.

  • I was encouraged to this by the appointment he had made on taking office of one of my most intimate friends, Eddy Hamilton (now Sir Edward Hamilton, K.

  • Brougham, who was very sore at having been forced to postpone his notice on Reform on account of the ministerial crisis, had gratuitously informed the House of Commons on two successive days that he had no intention of taking office.

  • During the week," said he, "which followed my taking office, I did not close my eyes for anxiety.

  • The people at Calne fixed Wednesday for my re-election on taking office; the very day on which I was to have been at a public dinner at Leeds.

  • In the course of conversation with Arbuthnot the other day on various matters, he told me something about Lord Spencer's taking office in '30, which I thought rather curious.

  • They unanimously agreed that great caution and determination were necessary, and that they must see their way more clearly before they committed themselves to taking office.

  • Melbourne said an odd thing which showed that he has not abandoned all idea of taking office again, though I hardly think he would if it came to the point.

  • In this default of assurances, Lord Salisbury thought that he should render the Queen no useful service by taking office.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cent store; coming back; cook slowly; fair specimen; great majority; intelligible world; large party; passing the; pretty place; prevent from; primitive revelation; slight sketch; taking charge; taking hold; taking leave; taking notice; taking office; taking over; taking part; taking place; taking possession; taking the; taking their; thin white; whom you; with eyes