Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 2 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 3 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 4 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 5 | She had an American boyfriend whom she was cultivating like mad and apparently he was so stunned by the first sight of Rosie 's straight grey legs and black feet pointing to twenty past eight that he took several photos of them with his expensive Leica camera , exclaiming joyfully , ‘ Oh boy ! |
| 6 | They 're probably even clearer if you take this copy of my er which I 'll leave by the door and er we 'll carry on next week . |
| 7 | So with regard to these beings , the Chewong know that they are vulnerable to attack , but that if they take proper care in their day-to-day behaviour and avoid places where potentially harmful beings are known to live and set their traps , they have a fairly good chance of being healthy and fit . |
| 8 | Which is that if we take these cards , instead of dropping in one at here there and everywhere and I doubt if anyone will take much notice of one , maybe I 'm a bit personally interested in , if I say could we all drop them in at Prestos in Rougier Street ? |
| 9 | Posthumous birthday and get well cards are therefore understandable if you take this view . |
| 10 | Figs 7 and 8 show a couple of illustrative fingerings ; as you play through these make sure that you take careful note of the formulae that are written underneath the notation . |
| 11 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 12 | ‘ As long as we take proper care of the children . ’ |
| 13 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 14 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 15 | They will be safe if they take three points . |
| 16 | They will be safe if they take three points . |
| 17 | I stayed at home as much as possible while I took massive doses of testosterone , the male hormone . |
| 18 | Anthony should be higher cos he takes free kicks . |
| 19 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 20 | You will be pleases to know that altogether we have raised £1,314.53 during 1987 and we take great pleasure in thanking you all most sincerely . |
| 21 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 22 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 23 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |
| 24 | We can " walk " a large distance across " animal space " , and our move will be plausible provided we take small-enough steps . |
| 25 | And one time in Austin it was really bad 'cos we took some acid before we played and I felt really small , like I could n't do anything , like wooahh ! , like vertigo . |