Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |
| 2 | When the European Communities Act 1972 became law each House of Parliament set up a committee to advise on how scrutiny of European legislation could most effectively take place . |
| 3 | I was rather less taken , however , with the somewhat frivolous embellishment of the flute obbligato in this movement . |
| 4 | In Britain this shift most obviously took the form of the sale of ( shares in ) state-owned industries and the sale of council houses ; but other manifestations of the shift included provision for the ‘ contracting out ’ by local authorities of various functions to private contractors and moves towards the ‘ privatization ’ of certain types of prison facilities . |
| 5 | He grew morose after that and growled at the customers , it seems — so most took themselves to the next village for their ale . |
| 6 | Walk up and down at her side , perhaps politely take her arm . |
| 7 | She could not refuse ; Mary so rarely took a holiday . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're all right to take me to the pictures , ’ she said . |
| 9 | But then making life easier for the passenger is what BAA is all about , and to do so successfully takes careful planning . |
| 10 | Manager D , with a time span of two to three years , did not feel that C , with a time span of three to four , was distant enough hierarchically to take orders from . |
| 11 | For just a few seconds , Lucinda hesitated ; for just long enough to take in the shock of white hair , the lined , weather-worn face and the tremendous size of him . |
| 12 | He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly . |
| 13 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 14 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 15 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 16 | Shakespeare does not so much take sides as show how the state is threatened by the tragic collision of opposing forces : for antique Rome read Jacobean England . |
| 17 | Satanic and necrophiliac obsessions , the meat and potatoes of death-metal , do n't so much take a back seat as miss the bus altogether thankfully . |
| 18 | We so much take these matters for granted that we forget that these abilities are constitutive of what we mean by ‘ higher education ’ . |
| 19 | I did n't so much take cover in the underbrush , I collided with it . |
| 20 | ‘ Freedom from party control , as distinct from party commitment , is now so much taken for granted that it requires no affirmation . ’ |
| 21 | Sandy was so much taken by surprise that her sickness was forgotten . |
| 22 | Marvell is so much taken with the love he has of nature he even proposes to cut out the names of the trees in their own bark , as opposed to the names of lovers . |
| 23 | In fact , he would be much better taking a wholly conservative approach to his new mortgage and plump for a fixed rate . |
| 24 | This situation applies to everyone actually digging on a site , so as there may be anything between one and 100 people all constantly taking decisions in this way , there exists a large potential for error . |
| 25 | As the work proceeds she/he makes tentative decisions on what to do with each title , and in doing so obviously takes into account the amount of money shortly to be used for replenishing the stock . |
| 26 | " Well , I 'm not quite sure that she might n't burst into tears , or perhaps suddenly take all her clothes off " This had actually once happened to Richard at Nestor and Sage , the investment counsellors where he worked . |
| 27 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |
| 28 | The idea was a novelty , it illumined a new area of thought in Isabel Lavender 's mind , and she felt a little daring , a little afraid , at bringing up for scrutiny something she had so long taken for granted . |
| 29 | Erm the only thing that occurred to me I just wondered if she knew somebody who had a dearly loved dog that , did n't want to train it but you know she could perhaps just take along for the joy of running it and training it but I think part of the pleasure is the reflected glory you know it 's my dog |
| 30 | So just take care of yourself . |