Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 2 | Zampolli summed up the curiously optimistic mood the industry found itself in , post-war , at Geneva : ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ during the war I took three orders for the car . |
| 3 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
| 4 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 5 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 6 | In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living . |
| 7 | He runs day classes and in the summer he takes residential students . |
| 8 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 9 | Joe , I 'm not seeking to close down on discussion about item er , three , one and three , three but in view of the discussion we took this morning , you took this morning about the capital building programme and referring it to er , P A G , may I suggest that they both go that way , unless you have any particular comments to add to . |
| 10 | Instead he makes you privy to the way he took certain shots , coping with available light , wind , wet knees and so on . |
| 11 | For myself and the family we take great pride in his military service and his awards for bravery . |
| 12 | An officer soon afterwards , and finally Captain Coetzee by the time he took early retirement in 1986 . |
| 13 | With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers . |
| 14 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |
| 15 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 17 | I took a retirement I took early retirement coming in the |
| 18 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 19 | In just over an hour he took five wickets , Ambrose chipped in with the other two , and England were all out for 93 . |
| 20 | ‘ As an optimist you take first prize , Aunt . ’ |
| 21 | For an overview we took each party 's average score across the four party images , and each leader 's average score across the twelve leader images . |