Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 2 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 3 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 4 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 5 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 6 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 7 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 8 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 9 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 10 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
| 11 | For a start only about thirty or so take part , since it is organised in four-ball teams , with one professional , a celebrity who is normally from sport or show business , and two amateurs . |
| 12 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
| 13 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 14 | Darlington Harriers are arranging a 10km fund raising fun run for August 30 , starting at 11am on High Row you must be 17 or over to take part . |
| 15 | Knowing what your rights may be worth in money terms will help you not only to decide whether or not to take legal action , if necessary , to recover the sums due to you , but also to assess the reasonableness of any ‘ termination package deal ’ offered to you and generally to plan ahead for the future . |
| 16 | Decide whether or not to take ( or sanction ) a risk . |
| 17 | Only then would he decide whether or not to take him back to our glorious green Earth . |
| 18 | Ultimately , whether or not to take the test must be the decision of the individual . |
| 19 | The following analysis uses these post-redundancy histories as a guide to some of the influences on older workers when they came to decide whether or not to take early retirement . |
| 20 | In the most serious cases , a field man will always be concerned with covering himself in deciding whether or not to take a formal sample . |
| 21 | Though almost certainly more tolerant than the norms observed by the police in deciding whether or not to take action against speeding motorists , these norms are somewhat less tolerant than those observed by some staff in areas of greater industrialization , as the following conversation with a field officer from such an area suggests : |
| 22 | Most students make use of the facility to change their minds about whether or not to take individual modules . |
| 23 | I have alerted the Director of Education to the likelihood that a decision on whether or not to take up the school site might need to be taken sooner than originally thought . |
| 24 | ‘ With many people 's desires to move being delayed or not taking place because of job and housing difficulties there may well be demands to make cities more acceptable or even attractive places to live , ’ said Miss Hughes . |
| 25 | As luck would have it , Sophie had had no arrangement of her own for this evening , and , either forgetting our pact , or not taking my need for it seriously as she knew my activities were , on her terms , so innocent , had dropped in to borrow some coffee . |
| 26 | ‘ We can see in the American financial world where you end up when risks are underestimated , or not taken account of quickly enough in the results . ’ |
| 27 | Or not taken , as the case may be . |
| 28 | If that option is not offered or not taken up , the first process quickly transforms itself ( by the operation of the SKIP guard ) to the second . |
| 29 | It 's also ironic that the whole discussion could have taken place on radio , which would have enabled one to look for a dictionary or just take a walk round the room . |
| 30 | ‘ We want as many Mini owners as possible to join the convoy , come for the weekend or just take part in the tour that Sunday . ’ |