Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 2 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 3 | ‘ Honestly , how they get away with such stuff — it 's bad enough they take a large commission , but to sit on the money as long as they do … ’ |
| 4 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 5 | So he took a young lamb , whose mother had died , and carried it in a basket across the fields to Mrs Hurst 's house . |
| 6 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 7 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
| 8 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 9 | Finally he took a whole lot of bottles out in the hope that in the ensuing muddle they would all finally be fitted in . |
| 10 | Fifteen minutes later she took a deep breath , desperately trying to steady the nerves fluttering like trapped birds in the pit of her stomach . |
| 11 | And now she took a better look at him , Folly could n't help noticing the strong , muscular lines of the broad back under that white shirt . |
| 12 | Inevitably it takes a great deal of time to go into these cases . |
| 13 | It had been all right finding the hospital , but on the way back he took a wrong turn and ended up by the seaside . |
| 14 | Now he took a deep breath and forced himself to keep calm . |
| 15 | There was no need to leave now ; he could stay and talk the matter out He took a few moments to arrange his thoughts , make a few educated guesses and assess the full extent of the plot which had been built around him . |
| 16 | Every so often he took a square-shaped flask from the inside pocket of his coat and stuck it to his lips like a trumpet . |
| 17 | C'm on everybody take a tuneful trip back in time ! |
| 18 | But then are n't you taking a political stance , rather than an aesthetic one ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'll do afternoon surgery , so why do n't you take a few hours off ? |
| 20 | To cut a long story short , next time music retailers start moaning about the recession why do n't they take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves who actually feeds them ? |
| 21 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 22 | ‘ Is n't it taking a big chance , sending a man like Dalby inside Romania ? |
| 23 | Does n't it take a long time to change people 's attitude against authority . |
| 24 | Eventually he took a short lease on a much smaller house in Upper Brook Street . |
| 25 | Eventually he took a hefty drop in income by abandoning the lucrative corridors of merchant bank Kleinwort Benson . |
| 26 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 27 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 28 | Then she took a deep breath . |
| 29 | Then she took a deep breath . |
| 30 | Her voice trailed off a moment , then she took a deep breath . |