Example sentences of "[noun sg] take one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bohr therefore supposed that the electron had to occupy a circular orbit whose angular momentum took one of the discrete values |
| 2 | The 6ft 2in Cambridge hit-man took one look at Old Trafford , which could n't tempt Southampton 's Shearer , and decided : ‘ This is the place for me . ’ |
| 3 | Each hang glider takes one set of sails . |
| 4 | Goldie takes one look at Rainbow 's shaggy ankles and sighs ; Rainbow says that if she has to wear tights or stockings , we might as well forget the whole damned thing . |
| 5 | The real-time computing engine takes one or two 88110s to get to a maximum 200 MIPS/200 MFLOPS . |
| 6 | Without becoming enmeshed in too much technical detail , the Act took one step further the policy changes initiated by the 1980 Act which created assured tenancies and shorthold tenancies . |
| 7 | is still progressing with the sport taking one championship title after the other . |
| 8 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 9 | However , at Halling he was soon engaged in repairing the Palace and started to build a new hall , this work taking one year and fifteen months and costing £120 , a quite staggering sum 650 years ago . |
| 10 | During the 16th century the mill was in the hands of various members of the Hone family , later passing to the clothier , Thomas Tayloe , from whom the mill took one of its best-remembered names . |
| 11 | Free radicals are formed when a covalent bond is split homolytically , i.e. when each bonded atom or group takes one of the bonding pair of electrons . |
| 12 | He felt that the transition from junior to senior school was difficult enough without making the children go to a different teacher for every subject , so the three first-year forms had their own class teacher for maths , English , scripture , history or geography ( one teacher took one or the other for two classes ) and science . |
| 13 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 14 | Bishops and barons were to have the right to take one or two deer when passing through the royal forest . |
| 15 | In one cycle , the algorithm takes one operator out of the list LOp and applies it to N , so producing just one child . |
| 16 | You know , the one where you sit there and lie through your teeth about spending every waking hour flossing and probing and massaging and never go out of an evening without your single-headed brush , and the Aussie hygienist who looks like Brooke Shields on a good day takes one prod at your gum and it spouts blood like Moby Dick on a bad day and the game 's up there and then . |
| 17 | The ground Hostess took one look at our tickets and told us that a gentleman was waiting to speak to us . |
| 18 | Holding it back with his shoulder and managing the flashlight under his arm , Forester took one of the cards and forced it into the gap , feeling it bend stiffly as he pushed it around the edge of the door . |
| 19 | It might cost 3p a day to take one of our products as a form of protection against heart disease or as a way of helping relieve the symptoms of rheumatism or arthritis . |
| 20 | This argument takes one of two forms depending upon the outlook of its proponent : either it is said that Europe must look to her own defence as a consequence of the American disengagement ; alternatively it is argued that Europe ought in principle to defend herself , so as to speed the departure of the US troops and be free of American ‘ domination ’ . |
| 21 | Swiss-inclined boiler locomotives are used on the line , and the train takes one hour to travel the 4½ miles to the summit . |
| 22 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 23 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 24 | The young father took one look then gripped his head with both hands . |
| 25 | The wolf took one look , snatched it off the steel hook — then looked round for somewhere to hide . |
| 26 | The surgeon took one look at my eyes and said , bluntly : ‘ Well , they 're a right mess , are n't they ? ’ . |
| 27 | that 's just they 're the people I 'm going to interview okay then you 've got example yesterday at approximately nine twenty Bacon 's technical college at went up in a barrage of smoke taking one life which is believed to be that of the caretaker who was having a last minute check before leaving the building in the evening . |
| 28 | ‘ It is our policy to take one game at a time and look no further than that . ’ |
| 29 | But this is setaside … the result of an EC policy to take one million three hundred thousand acres of land in Britain out of production to reduce cereal surpluses . |
| 30 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |