Example sentences of "[noun prp] take [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument from error has here a plausible consistency , while the point which Nozick takes to be his strength begins to look like a weakness . |
| 2 | Fowles takes from Marx his epigraph about emancipation , and , like Berger , uses textual strategies to enforce upon readers an unusually direct engagement with this wider theme in the novel . |
| 3 | Demos takes in figures from the business , trades union and academic worlds as well as journalists . |
| 4 | Therese took in Flavia 's gleaming silk shirt and eager face . |
| 5 | But by the Ausgleich the Habsburgs took into partnership one of the racial groups of which the empire was composed . |
| 6 | Rex took to wildly tapping buttons . |
| 7 | An instance had arisen on a walking tour Jack and Warnie took in Derbyshire in 1936 . |
| 8 | But when Millie , from her seat , lifted her arm and waved to them , they looked at each other , giggled , then all waved back , which Millie took as a good omen and Rose Quinton took as a sign of comparative peace . |
| 9 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 10 | Modern industrial society with its superior ‘ organic ’ solidarity could dispense with these primitive aids to cohesion and develop the more civilized , less emotional and , above all , rational legal processes which Durkheim took to be characteristic of progress . |
| 11 | Eliot once muttered when they were left alone together , which Sherek took as a sign that he was uneasy in his company — but , over the next ten years and three dramas , the partnership proved a fruitful one . |
| 12 | Travis took in a deep breath . |
| 13 | CLENBUTEROL , the supposed steroid weightlifters Andrew Davies and Andrew Saxton took for asthma , now seems NOT to be banned after all . |
| 14 | Such attacks on the corruption of the previous regime were the stock in trade of usurping rulers , but it is not the line Richard took in 1483 . |
| 15 | Such attacks on the corruption of the previous regime were the stock in trade of usurping rulers , but it is not the line Richard took in 1483 . |
| 16 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 17 | Lightman took into account the Irishman 's current financial situation , which he described as ‘ in pretty bad shape ’ . |
| 18 | Out of 700 cases that the PPL took to court last year , it is thought that as many as 100 could have been brought against hotels or restaurants . |
| 19 | You take the kind of view that Freud took of sex , namely that sex is , to quote his term , polymorphously perverse , that sex is n't just a simple question of a regular male er doing it with a regular female . |
| 20 | Since opening in Cologne in 1986 , Kren 's arduously researched exhibitions have included ‘ Georges Rouault/George Baselitz : Dialectic in Prints ’ ; Brazilian Ex Votos ; Frederick Kiesler ; African Masks and Japanese Noh-Masks alongside drawings by American artists Feininger , Childs , Kwiatek , Ellis , Taylor and Ferro ; Thom Barth and Masks from Black Africa ; and in early 1992 , nineteen photographs of Picasso taken by Jean Cocteau in 1916 in conjunction with African Tribal Arts . |
| 21 | She had Elisa taken to her car to be driven to the house a few streets away . |
| 22 | The voice was Coleridge 's , arguing that although the war had been costly to the rich , it had left them much ; ‘ but a PENNY taken from the pocket of a poor man might deprive him of a dinner ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's had old Mrs Wright taken into Atherton hospital . ’ |
| 24 | Assuming that the home-made EB3 had signally failed to cut any jazz-rock mustard , which direction , instrument-wise , had Neil taken after that ? |
| 25 | If his army were crushed and Kuwait taken by force , and if the allied forces were then eager to pack up and go home or found themselves no longer wanted , UN peacekeepers could step in . |
| 26 | The official attitude to British Jewry taken by the BUF saw Jews in terms of a national rather than a religious or racial issue . |
| 27 | We have already seen evidence of this in Zande witchcraft beliefs with their eager concern to assimilate and ‘ naturalize ’ new information so that it is consistent with the basic assumptions which Zande take for granted . |
| 28 | If a messenger be sent by the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre to take into custody some of the most substantial , as was done on the return of King Charles the Second , it may prevent further destruction . |
| 29 | The critics of postmodernism are thus correct in their contention that what Lyotard takes to be postmodernity is in fact part and parcel of modernism . |
| 30 | McDermott takes off the top of a zombie 's head with a shovel — done with a trick shovel by reversing the action , then using a dummy in long shot . |