Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 2 | I tend to take the beautiful surroundings of the mikva for granted ; in my local mikva , the private bathrooms which lead in total privacy into one of two mikvas are beautifully decorated and colour co-ordinated , centrally heated with modern power-showers and flouncy floral curtains all around . |
| 3 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 4 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 5 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 6 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 7 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 8 | ‘ I aim to take the positive approach all the time now . |
| 9 | Last time , I had to take the other route from Larne to Stranraer in Scotland . |
| 10 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 12 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 13 | I had taken the Big C to Agincourt . |
| 14 | ‘ This man is n't the King because I 've taken the real King prisoner and murdered his servant . ’ |
| 15 | VINNY JONES went back to Wimbledon yesterday and declared : ‘ I 've taken the first step on the managerial ladder . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've taken the small phial of poison Brampton 's supposed to have used . ’ |
| 17 | Er but er this is the position as it is now and I I 've taken the conservative position as always . |
| 18 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 19 | Therefore I have taken the different topics in the order that my sources thought appropriate and provided references to at least some of the specific instances of those problems that Howard gave in his text . |
| 20 | But there are also groups within these communities which have taken the other route , and adopted the position of a ‘ race apart ’ , investing it with a positive image as a means of asserting the distinctiveness of their own culture and its powers of resistance to the dominant society . |
| 21 | Shares of Japanese banks , which have taken the worst beating in the plunge in share prices , rebounded strongly , along with the rest of the market . |
| 22 | Directors who ought to have realized that insolvent liquidation was inevitable , but who failed to take the necessary step to minimize the potential loss to creditors . |
| 23 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 24 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 25 | A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document . |
| 26 | But in his absence no-one was capable of providing it and that must be hugely worrying for Wilkinson , who has taken the biggest gamble of his successful career by selling the striker . |
| 27 | But the north London giants will have to fight off a bid from Everton who want to take the bustling hit-man to Merseyside . |
| 28 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 29 | And you know taking the top jockeys , Scudamore , Dunwoody , Niven , Osborne , McCourt they could all have made a success of whatever they chose to do , I 'm sure of that . ’ |
| 30 | Her family is convinced Mandy 's weight problems started when she started taking the contraceptive pill at 14 after the Rolling Stone seduced her in a Paris hotel.They stayed silent for eight years but were angered this week by 56-year-old Bill 's decision to go public . |