Example sentences of "[verb] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not said whether he will consider taking a peerage . |
| 2 | In addition , he might consider taking a shower or some exercise on waking , procedures which are aimed at stressing a regular start to the day . |
| 3 | ‘ We were wondering if perhaps you 'd consider taking a more high-profile role in the company ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ To put it bluntly , we wondered whether you 'd consider taking a sabbatical for six months or so from your backroom job to liaise direct with Carlisle Flint ? |
| 5 | Most laboratory and field studies of human behaviour involve taking a situational snap-shot at a given time in a given place . |
| 6 | Would that include taking a stake in the er , the Fairfax float when erm , that takes place later this year ? |
| 7 | In advance , using the smokescreen of Tech-Green bureaucracy , he 'd arranged for this fictional shuttle-worker to be placed on a shift which involved taking a shuttle through the gravity well to Gaiah . |
| 8 | Only one of the physics students , had , for example , considered taking a degree in chemistry . |
| 9 | think that in those days anybody would have considered taking a child out like that , you know ! |
| 10 | Councillor Ardor Deems took a turn about the long room . |
| 11 | As the decades have gone by , scholarly work has piled up , so that this category of book has taken a larger , longer and much more expensive form than before . |
| 12 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 13 | THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name . |
| 14 | The Tutor is a student of peasant origin who has taken a job teaching the son of a wealthy merchant whose household is spending the summer in their country dacha . |
| 15 | The Speaker of the House of Commons , Bernard Weatherill , has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead . |
| 16 | IN THE Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals at Sadler 's Wells , the former world champion , Anatoly Karpov , has taken a 2-1 lead after his opponent , Artur Yusupov , resigned the adjourned third game of their match yesterday . |
| 17 | Similar work in the United States , he says , has taken a multi-million dollar , five-year programme to achieve . |
| 18 | Olshan makes Susan a powerful , smart , sensual woman moving surefootedly through the opulent Westchester County jungle where the Kaplans live : she issues orders to the au pair , knows the Manhattan-Hartsdale train times , and deals honestly with a husband who has taken a sexual vacation from her on the very afternoon of the Rosen drowning . |
| 19 | If they sign an ‘ income received ’ deal , they will only receive their proportion of the royalties sent to their UK publisher , after the foreign publisher has taken a percentage . |
| 20 | Charlie has taken a street sweeper 's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets . |
| 21 | Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 22 | It is just past three in the morning , and the journey here has taken a little over three hours . |
| 23 | Shocked has taken a brave step . |
| 24 | MIKE SPRACKLEN , who coached British crews to gold medals at the last two Olympics , has taken a £30,000-a-year job in Canadian rowing after alleging he was snubbed by the British sport despite offering his services free . |
| 25 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 26 | In the past , Mrs Aquino has taken a conciliatory stance towards ambitious factions in her armed forces , but , instead of appeasing mutineers , this policy has stoked rebellion in the barracks . |
| 27 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 28 | McKinsey , a consultancy , has taken a different approach . |
| 29 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
| 30 | This has taken a heavy toll of British Tornadoes , which pass low over the airfields to deliver their JP-233 runway-busting mines and bombs . |