Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 2 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 3 | So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . |
| 4 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 5 | Be aware of potential trouble before you walk into it — if , for instance , there is a group of drunks five hundred yards ahead of you cross over or take the next turning to avoid it . |
| 6 | ‘ If yu keep straight on and take the first turnin' on your left , yu 'll be at Sunset Cottage in quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 7 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 8 | Joan drew near and took the dead man 's child by the hands , and kissed her . |
| 9 | Then I got up and took the two rugs by their corners and dragged them outside the door . |
| 10 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 11 | The Colonel strode up and took the dead woman in his arms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have suggested that a feature of leadership is the ability to stand back and take the wider perspective . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And what we 've done now , and with colleagues from Germany , is to take cores off north west Africa , say about twenty metres down into the sediment , we sample them in the lab here and took the small amounts of sediment and examined them for these long chain compounds and we were extremely excited to see that as we went down this core , back through the last few hundred thousand years , we could see our signal on sea surface temperature oscillating about roughly in the same way that er has been found with other methods of getting at the past history of the climate . |
| 18 | sector and wait for it to come round again and take the next sector . |