Example sentences of "to take [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loose skin of Vologsky 's cheeks and lower chin quivered under the increasing pull of the G-force and his entire body seemed to take on a couple of stone in extra weight . |
| 2 | William Charles was then half-way there ; the next stage was to take along a piece of paper certifying this aforesaid freedom , and present it to the Chamberlain 's Office as part of the procedure for achieving full freedom of the City . |
| 3 | He remained there for about two years before returning to England in July 1657 to take up a position as mathematics tutor to Joscelyne Percy , son of Algernon Percy , tenth Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , at Petworth , an appointment which seems to have been due to the influence of the Puritan reformer Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 5 | Helena Hamerow , the Mary Somerville Research Fellow , resigned in the summer to take up a post as lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Durham . |
| 6 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 7 | An added advantage is that you have a mortgage already in place if you later need to take out a loan for house repairs . |
| 8 | The single currency mortgage allows you to take out a loan in Sterling , which the lender converts into another currency . |
| 9 | It may be necessary to take out a Power of Attorney , or an Enduring Power of Attorney ( Age Concern , 1986 , p. 76–86 ) . |
| 10 | He also tried his hand as a film director , though less successfully , and wrote a play about a German who sought to take out a patent for gas ovens , which was staged to scant acclaim at the Arts Theatre in 1965 . |
| 11 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |
| 12 | The museums are going to take quite a lot of time . |
| 13 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |