Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one hit-and-run case , one of the jurors had the effrontery to challenge the coroner 's authority , stating that he was a cyclist himself and that pedestrians were often at fault because they took insufficient care . |
| 2 | The Labour party warned the Government of the time bomb that was being being created by their policies months before they took any action to try to stem the flow of repossessions . |
| 3 | OF GBW topped the honours in the finals of the London Breweries Squash contest as he took top spot in the veterans event . |
| 4 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 5 | Belvoir was not her only house , for her late husband the 9th Duke restored Haddon Hall where she took particular pleasure in the rose terraces . |
| 6 | So you map it onto the tuple array and then all the tuples so you take each tuple in in order . |
| 7 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 8 | At a meeting in Washington the committee adopted a resolution urging the 118 CITES members to enforce a trade embargo on these countries unless they take significant steps to stop the trade . |
| 9 | Looking back on his achievements in the 21-months since he took Ministerial office , the Tory candidate said he wanted to complete the programme of reforms with which he had been involved . |
| 10 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't think what would happen to the shop if I take one day off . ’ |
| 12 | But because he waited more than 13 weeks before he took any action , he was too late to lodge an official complaint against his GP . |
| 13 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 14 | All that flashed through my head while I took one step out of the Ladies . |
| 15 | Monitors frequent both Oriental and Australian regions where they take many forms , including the giant Komodo Dragon on the Indonesian island of that name . |
| 16 | Thus , a mechanistic system is closed and an organic system is open to the environment If we take local government as an open system we can see that inputs from the environment will include the following : |
| 17 | The C E C recommends that we look at the experience of these regions before we take any decisions nationally . |
| 18 | Mr Peter Sutherland will end a 20-year teaching career when he takes early retirement from Tilery Primary School in the summer , at the same time as Mr James Burton retires from Bishopsgarth School after ten years in the profession . |
| 19 | George , 61 , and wife Betty , 60 , have had to watch the pennies since he took early retirement when his hospital was privatised . |
| 20 | She watched Bob as he took another spoonful of sugar . |
| 21 | The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker . |
| 22 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 23 | yeah but on the other hand Geoff if they took that attitude with everybody , nobody would |
| 24 | Middlesbrough will be in a strong position if they take full advantage of games in hand . |
| 25 | However , her RSI could become a recurring problem unless she takes careful precautions . |
| 26 | it 's my go because I took this card . |
| 27 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 28 | In fact if we took this argument to its logical conclusion we would of course be forced to reject Christianity itself , which in its fundamentals is a pre-modern view of the world . |
| 29 | In his refreshing book Mr Veseth looks at Victorian Britain , which improved on Florence 's commercial ideas , particularly public debt , and also went into decline ; and at present-day America , which is deeply in debt but might , he argues , avoid decline if it takes brave decisions . |
| 30 | who might vote S.D. P. Because I take Great Issue |