Example sentences of "[conj] take [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
2 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
3 | This criticism depends on a view about what competence with a concept is , a view about what it is to know the meaning of a word , about what it is to know the rules for the application of that word , rules that take you from one instance to the next . |
4 | Each department takes a different number of outlooks and takes them from different sources . |
5 | He reaches up for it and takes it in both hands . |
6 | Er people are very very good actually at enduring them and er and taking them in some ways for granted . |
7 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |
8 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
9 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
10 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
11 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
12 | He reached for the case and took it in both hands . |
13 | She had put it on and taken it off three times ; it now lay on the chair beside her . |
14 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
15 | we 'll bring them out this Sunday and take him in next Saturday |
16 | Okay well you could take it from here and take it round that way . |