Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she took the first lot back you know , the two boxes |
| 2 | Suddenly he took the visionary image of his own manhood into his arms , his ruffled hair against the stone curls , and burst into a storm of silent weeping . |
| 3 | No apparently it takes the whole top of it |
| 4 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 5 | Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like . |
| 6 | So he took the youngest brother to the village where the good Christian girl lived . |
| 7 | Finally he took the bass part of some airs of Handel … and played the most beautiful melody on it and in such a manner that everyone was amazed . |
| 8 | This holds good on condition that we are restricting our attention , as in this study , to syntax ; once we take the broader view which embraces speakers ' knowledge of vocabulary as well , then we must admit a real analogue to this relation since speakers are quite aware that their language habitually uses , for example this set of words to instantiate E , and that set of words to instantiate P ( or , in most languages , various sets of words to instantiate the Ps occurring in various different intensional patterns ; see Appendix B , Section 7 ) . |
| 9 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 10 | More often it takes the plural form , indicating partition of the property between co-heiresses , like Agnes Chaplayne and Beatrix Salesbury at Gayhurst , Bucks . |
| 11 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 12 | Here she takes the first round , |
| 13 | Here she takes the seventh round |
| 14 | Here she takes the second round , |
| 15 | Here she takes the fifth round |
| 16 | Here she takes the sixth round , |
| 17 | Here she takes the fourth round |
| 18 | Here she takes the third round , |
| 19 | Not surprisingly they take the easy way out when food is put out for them each day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Sometimes I take the brown Austin . |
| 22 | Then she took the discarded flowers in her hands , kissed them and touched them to her forehead , and reverently murmured to herself , ‘ Beloved of my heart . ' ’ |
| 23 | and from there she took the upper hand . |
| 24 | So when they left Bristol they went to find a place that takes , , then they took the wrong turning off the |
| 25 | Then he took the proffered penny and went inside the pub , leaving me to get on with it . |
| 26 | Then he took the right fork of the track , following it for a hundred yards , and blocked it so that clearing the barricade in a hurry would require a bulldozer . |
| 27 | And then it was saying about the ones where they take the front end of a car and joi , match it to the stolen |
| 28 | Having slotted the door pivots into place on the doors , you can then insert them , locating the pivot into the top track first , then resting the bottom pivots into the bottom track where they take the full weight of the doors |
| 29 | He held this position until the fall of the Protectorate in 1659 , when he took the republican side . |
| 30 | On the Manx Nortons , and managed by the late Joe Craig , who came from Gracehill outside Ballymena , Geoff won his first North West race in 1950 when he took the 350 race at 82.54mph . |