Example sentences of "[verb] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 2 | It make take several weeks before you win — but you will , I am sure , eventually be victorious . |
| 3 | When I told Miranda , she burst into tears , so I said lets take some flowers . |
| 4 | Really , Marjorie , you do take great leaps when you jump to your conclusions . ’ |
| 5 | Gramsci is therefore arguing that class cleavages can and do take spatial forms , such as urban capitalist middle-class versus rural semi-feudal peasantry . |
| 6 | But they do take little space . |
| 7 | I assure you that we at Amnesty do take such questions seriously and make considerable efforts to avoid insensitive statements . |
| 8 | Tell you what I must do actually whilst I 'm thinking about it is do take one lot of washing out and put another lot in . |
| 9 | They attribute it to the class differences in staying on at school and they point to the similarity in performance of working-class candidates who do take public examinations with other candidates . |
| 10 | After the hearing a company spokesman said : ‘ Kwik Save has a vast number of stores throughout the country and we do take this area very seriously . |
| 11 | ‘ We sha n't be here much longer — if I do take this job , only another month . |
| 12 | I 'm still conscious of what I wear , I have n't completely lost track of fashion , but I do take more care now to see that my body is well covered , especially my head . |
| 13 | In Belgium many people do take three weeks at a time |
| 14 | Nevertheless , Balcon did take practical measures of his own to develop more technically sophisticated films , by setting up productions in German studios , and working with European technicians whose superiority to their British counterparts was recognized . |
| 15 | right , she did take that book with her , did n't she ? |
| 16 | Even those who did take legal action received little advantage from it . |
| 17 | Yet , as he revealed in one of his later outbursts , he did take Jewish pupils , perhaps without realising at first that they were so . |
| 18 | Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped . |
| 19 | Neil , ’ I said , urgently , ‘ he did take this picture tonight , and whatever he took it for , it 's got to mean he 'll be coming back for it , and soon . |
| 20 | In Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , 88 per cent of the 243 of ‘ The Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed did take some steps to aid new staff who were moving to take up an appointment . |
| 21 | Anyway in the end he and the Education Officer did take some action to control the bullies and since then there has been no trouble . |
| 22 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 23 | But it did take some time . |
| 24 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 25 | By the time she dared take another look — this time squinting through almost closed eyes — the star 's appearance had completely changed . |
| 26 | Although the eigenproblem to be solved at each step is vastly less time-consuming and expensive than direct methods applied to the full system , yet it does take much time . |
| 27 | A field of rare flowers that is destroyed can be replanted and may eventually be the same as the field that was destroyed ( even if the process does take 1,000 years ) . |
| 28 | The notional syllabus , as he describes it , does take grammatical factors into account ( or at least , does not lose sight of them ) . |
| 29 | We have heard various explanations of who these people might be and Lord does take some comfort erm from Amendment number twenty-seven in the Bill , but looking at that Amendment , I 'm afraid My Lords it does n't really take us very far . |
| 30 | ‘ It does take some nerve and a nerve I was n't quite sure I 'd got . |