Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They cooperate better and take an active part in their recovery . |
| 2 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 3 | they step in and take a positive lead when things are n't progressing well . |
| 4 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 5 | ‘ It should be a warning to them that if they 're really serious about fighting drug abuse , they need to step in and take a leading role . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 7 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 8 | ‘ Should we pop out for an hour or so and take a late breakfast ? ’ |
| 9 | Lugh , who had listened to all this with tolerance ( because of being a good leader ) , thought that now was probably as good a time as any to slip away and take a real look at Tara . |
| 10 | It was some music he 'd never heard before , but he turned it up loud anyway and took a deep breath and settled back into his seat . |
| 11 | He put the letter aside and took a fresh piece of parchment , smoothing it out and rubbing it clear with a pumice stone . |
| 12 | He nodded his satisfaction and let go , and she wrenched it off and took a deep breath . |
| 13 | Joan drew near and took the dead man 's child by the hands , and kissed her . |
| 14 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 15 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 16 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 17 | The Colonel strode up and took the dead woman in his arms . |
| 18 | ‘ And I know that when the pressure is on , I can get up and take a 20-minute walk around the reserve and come back again . |
| 19 | She shook herself slightly and took a final look down the proud granite staircase towards the traffic . |
| 20 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 21 | Get it out and take a close look at it . |
| 22 | He cleared the board and was about to play again when the boy 's hand reached out and took a white stone from the bowl to his left . |
| 23 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |
| 24 | It therefore follows that even if you are two points ahead at the 30 seconds ' bell , the opponent can still pull these back and take the final point to win . |
| 25 | Throughout the development of the project I have had to step back and take an honest look at my way of working . |
| 26 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 27 | Very dirty items , if they are cleaned immediately and take a long time , can upset the flow and cause a log-jam of dirties with congestion in the reception area which restricts work further . |
| 28 | Some writers , according to Janssen-Jurreit , turned Grimm 's thesis around and took the grammatical gender of a word as evidence of whether what it denoted was masculine or feminine . |
| 29 | Robinson soon went , but Gooch and Gower batted well and took the overnight score to 110 for 1 ; only another 119 to avoid the follow-on and clearly England 's best day of the series so far . |
| 30 | I almost dare suggest myself again and take a stiff brandy and ask a lot of questions that we want to know the answers to . |