Example sentences of "[pron] take [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 2 | I took a deep breath and said , yes , all right , he could borrow mine . |
| 3 | He and Rosie were both impressed by the loose creance work I was doing , so I took a deep breath and removed all the equipment , except for the jesses . |
| 4 | I took a deep breath and smelt the sea . |
| 5 | I took a deep breath and stepped forward . |
| 6 | I took a deep breath and ran my dagger under the rim of the casket , freeing the wooden pegs from their sockets around the edge of the coffin . |
| 7 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 8 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 9 | I took a closer look and discovered it was blood running from his head . |
| 10 | I took a cold shower and changed my clothes . |
| 11 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 12 | I took a shorter way than Sapt and when I reached the moat , I hid my horse in the trees , tied my rope round a strong tree and let myself down into the water . |
| 13 | I took the only option that I could see was open to me , and I ran away into the desert . |
| 14 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 15 | In fact , of course , I did criticise them , although out of fear of my father I took the easier route and voiced that criticism upon my mother . |
| 16 | I TOOK the little cinder that was the remains of the wasp and put it into a matchbox , wrapped in an old photograph of Eric with my father . |
| 17 | It was not uncommon for someone to take a wrong turning and be found wandering three weeks later , cold and hungry . |
| 18 | I take a deep breath and head back into the eye of the storm , careening down side-streets when police barricades and fire hoses block the main avenues . |
| 19 | I take a deep breath and try to calm myself , to still the noisy , rusty jagged parts . |
| 20 | Well I , I take the implicit point that erm we 're all suffering cuts throughout the country , therefore why should n't higher education suffer similar cuts , but of course , higher education is in a different category to erm many other fields that the government pays for and sponsors , in that higher education is investment in the future , and therefore , if Britain is to survive erm as a , a nation of erm of some economic standing , is to well in the national , in the international stakes , then we must be innovative , we must create new things , and we must erm in , in that , to do that we must invest very strongly in higher education . |
| 21 | But I take the humanitarian line that this permits Mr Tim to engage in full imaginative sympathy with those tongues of Babel who throw themselves on his mercy . |
| 22 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |
| 23 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 24 | We can say , though , that with the at least partial collapse of the modernist perspective , there appears to be a certain potency in the post-modernist position , which takes the dominant system as given and proposes as method of critique the fragment : subversion takes the form of ‘ guerrilla activity ’ which exploits fissures and forgotten spaces within the hegemonic structure . |
| 25 | I suppose it will come right in the end its taken a long while because look at that lump there |
| 26 | She takes a deep drag and goes on . |
| 27 | It had become his belief that a good entrepreneur is not the person who takes the biggest risks but the one who learns to spot the safest bets . |
| 28 | She took a resolute breath and manoeuvred the jeep behind a low sports car . |
| 29 | She took a calming breath and turned , and was put off her stroke for a moment when she saw his glance flicking over her slim and erect carriage , taking in the elegant and attractive navy-trimmed white outfit she wore . |
| 30 | She took a deep breath but before she had the chance to speak someone tapped on the door and a dark , bearded man appeared . |