Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 2 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 3 | Well , the Dean and I took great joy in disabusing that person of that mistaken view . |
| 4 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 5 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 6 | That this ‘ slippage ’ is so slight is due to the fact that the other Enterprise staff have worked a great deal of extra time and taken on extra responsibilities and I take this opportunity of thanking them for their hard work and support during this period . |
| 7 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 8 | ‘ I love our business and I take great pride in it . |
| 9 | A friend and I took one tablet apiece . |
| 10 | As we got round the corner , Jo and I took one look at each other and ran . |
| 11 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 12 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 13 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
| 14 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
| 15 | Ron and I take each year as it comes and we always plan for me to run a personal best every season . |
| 16 | I feel that the facilities provided by the Careers Service have never had greater significance and I take some consolation in knowing that the current team is well structured and dedicated to providing the best possible service in finding careers and fulfilment for graduates from the University ’ . |
| 17 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 18 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 19 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 20 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 21 | Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously . |
| 22 | A summary of export mission achievements is shown on page 10 of this Report and I take this opportunity to thank all those who have led Scottish Council missions during 1989/90 for their excellent support . |
| 23 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 24 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |
| 25 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 26 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 27 | He often comes in of an evenin' and he took one look at the cow and told me what to do . |