Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you begin to take more cocaine , and quite soon you need more and more cocaine to unlock the gates of heaven , and once you reach heaven you do n't want to leave it and so you take still more cocaine , but by then it is n't working . ’ |
| 2 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 3 | Nevertheless we have to take proper precautions . |
| 4 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 5 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 6 | Now I keep taking this Shelabruse it clears , and it comes back . |
| 7 | The company , the future , Jamie … now you 've taken that burden from me , and I can relax at last , knowing it 's all safe . ’ |
| 8 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 9 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 10 | or then you need to take especial care , alright ? |
| 11 | Zborowski told Carco how he had taken fifteen canvases to a merchant the other morning and wanted very little money for them , but the merchant sent him away … |
| 12 | You may well be wondering why I have taken such pains to show that the Spirit of God , his active intervention on the human scene which took such varied forms in the Old Testament , became concentrated in the person of Jesus the Messiah , and then was poured out by him upon the messianic community . |
| 13 | He could n't fathom why she 'd taken such exception to Eleanor . |
| 14 | The effects on the body do take a little while to show themselves and sometimes there will be periods when you seem to take three steps forward and two backward . |
| 15 | The Swiss played us off the field in both our European ties a year ago , yet we managed to take three points from them . |
| 16 | Yet we hesitate to take this step — and here is the source of the dilemma — for the modern law of contract appears so uncertain in its scope and mysterious in its moral vision . |
| 17 | Dr Michael Clarke , the society 's south-east England regional conservation officer , said yesterday : ‘ The Medway estuary is recognised internationally as a conservation area , particularly for birdlife , and that is why we have taken this step of seeking judicial review . ’ |
| 18 | That 's the first and they 'll be the ones that will be able to tell you why they 've taken that decision and why we say it 's a reasonable decision . |
| 19 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 20 | Although the eigenproblem to be solved at each step is vastly less time-consuming and expensive than direct methods applied to the full system , yet it does take much time . |
| 21 | Neville Chamberlain returned that day from France , where he had taken ten days ' rest , and the last session of Baldwin 's leadership began . |