Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] take the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 2 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 3 | Joan drew near and took the dead man 's child by the hands , and kissed her . |
| 4 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 5 | The Colonel strode up and took the dead woman in his arms . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |