Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're the side of Freud , that has tended to be ignored , even by the people you would 've expected to take the greatest notice of them . |
| 2 | The European Community 's environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has threatened to take the British government to court for failing to comply with the EC 's drinking water directive , which sets limits on levels of toxic and microbiological pollution . |
| 3 | He has got to take the next action , it 's up to him now . |
| 4 | Such situations as were faced by these librarians in the early part of 1986 were not new and no doubt will recur , and librarians may well feel forced to take the same course of action in future . |
| 5 | Their daughter seemed to have taken the best features and left the bad ones . |
| 6 | You seem to have taken the three-day week to heart too quickly . ’ |
| 7 | De Montfort 's men had to march up the northern scarp , but they still seem to have taken the royal forces , camped down in the priory grounds , by surprise . |
| 8 | As I found out later , a metal necklace he was wearing had taken the full brunt of the lightning flash . |
| 9 | That is , at the beginning of the spell of unemployment the individual assumes that the environment will remain unchanged and carries out an optimisation to obtain the optimal reservation wage ; but someone still unemployed at time T is assumed to reoptimise taking the changed environment into account . |
| 10 | He is believed to have taken the full force of the blast , on October 24 , 1990 , and died instantly . |
| 11 | well to have to see take the bloody thing off |
| 12 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 13 | You 've got to take the whole lot as a unit . |
| 14 | I went to see a patient , a , a , a woman who 's husband had died they 're a pa a pain because you want to ring nine nine you 've got to take the darn lock off , there 's er trying |
| 15 | And therefore you 've got to take the shortest route across . |
| 16 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he added , it had failed to take the necessary steps to prevent an escape of rainbow trout . |
| 18 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 19 | That is why Greenpeace have had to take the moral initiative … |
| 20 | If a further shelf is wanted higher up , small holes need drilling to take the mounting studs . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a major disappointment that they have failed to take the necessary initiatives . ’ |
| 22 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 23 | In addition , if you are delayed more than 12 hours and you have chosen to take the recommended Holiday Insurance Policy that Club 18–20 has arranged with Eagle Star , you have the right to cancel and receive a refund , or , at your preference , continue on your holiday and receive compensation of up to £65 per person . |