Example sentences of "[pron] take [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When in football someone takes aim at the goal we say there is a sudden heightening of tension ; when it is all over after a noble save by the goalie there is an equally sudden slackening of tension . |
2 | Japan has announced that it intends to scale down the use of driftnets in the run-up to the UN ban which takes effect at the end of the year [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
3 | In Darlington , 99 fitness fans have signed up for Swimathon ‘ 92 which takes place at the Dolphin Centre at 5.30 pm tomorrow . |
4 | The company was formed by Robert Southam , who also acts and directs for the company and in 1979 launched the European Summer School of Arts and Languages at Oxford , which takes place at the University and offers courses in theatre , music , dance , painting , film-making and English and French literature to young people from all over Europe , including Oxfordshire . |
5 | To be shown on the stand of Antiquus , London , at the Orangerie Italiana 1992 which takes place at the Accademia Italiana from 9 to 18 December . |
6 | Hence the third International Storytelling Festival which takes root at the South Bank Centre before moving on , in various forms , to Leicester , York , Bristol , Reading , Manchester , Barrow-in-Furness and Llantwit Major . |
7 | The world summit for children which took place at the weekend caught the headlines around the world and the world 's leaders put their heads together and agreed that children all round the world are suffering and something must be done about it . |
8 | The OECD Economic Outlook of June 1990 attributed most of the favourable development in inflation at the end of 1989 to a stabilization of oil prices , the further softening of non-oil raw material prices , and the absorption of the effects of indirect tax increases which took place at the beginning of 1989 . |
9 | ‘ There is no easy decision because to let everything stay as it is means to let the Communist explosion which took place at the Congress spread across Russia . ’ |
10 | She has also been involved with the organisation of a few other projects including a National Sleep Out , which aimed to increase public awareness of Aberdeen 's homeless people and Dial-a-Santa which took place at the end of last year . |
11 | Rev Kevin Engel , vice-chairperson of WACC 's Asian Regional Association ( WACC-AR ) , was the main speaker at the seminar which took place at the East Asia Pastoral Institute over three days . |
12 | The critical question is : what happened between [ Bunn ] and the husband at their meeting of 23 July which took place at the bank 's premises ? |
13 | Do you take stock at the end of a day , a week or a year ? |
14 | She took aim at the sniper , but his roof collapsed under him , dropping him into the fire . |
15 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
16 | The action described in them takes place at the sanctuary of Shiloh , where the priest is an old man called Eli . |
17 | There is one taking place at the moment involving Internal Digital ( DEC ) employees and there seems to be a lot of traffic and interest in it , though I do n't have time for that one . |
18 | Then we took turns at the dressing table , plastering our faces with lotions , creams , lipstick and eye shadow , and helping ourselves to my mother 's " Arpège " . |
19 | They could no longer put up with that careless hullabaloo of lazy , cheerful people , they took offence at the laziness , or else at the cheerfulness . ’ |
20 | It takes place at the College of Technology in Kevin Street — but it is only open to those already accepted as a trainee or who have some position in a recognised organisation . |
21 | Ram was now raising his gun as calmly as the waiter who dips his net into the tank … ah , but Ram had paused again , this time to cough and to smooth back his white moustaches which had been somewhat disarranged by the gust of air from his cough then he took aim at the gliding sepoy , there was a sudden wild foaming and thrashing of water , and the sepoy lay gasping on the turf . |
22 | Struwwelpeter hair streaming behind him , he took exhibitions at the run , a manic smile of glee overtaking his features when he spotted a wrong attribution . |
23 | The first bombing was at Bianconese , very near Fontevivo , and it took place at the end of September 1943 . |
24 | It took place at the junction of Wilton and Devizes Roads , opposite the County Gaol . |
25 | It took place at the house of my friend R E. Vernede , himself a poet of some promise and a novelist of some performance who was also killed in the ‘ 14–18 ’ war . |
26 | One is how far advanced the Labour Party 's thinking was on the nature of planning it might undertake if it took power at the end of the second world war . |
27 | Before leaving Mr Rees 's favourite subject , it is worth recalling what took place at the MALG Conference earlier this year . |
28 | ‘ And what of today , my lord ? 'T IS what took place at the Guildhall that causes you distress , is not it ? ’ |