Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has forgotten to take a glass bottle out of the freezer will know the shattering consequence . |
| 2 | The time has come to take a closer look at that assumption . |
| 3 | ‘ Ace , Benny , ’ Petion called out as he entered , ‘ the Colonel has decided to take a force to the cemetery . |
| 4 | He has offered to take a blood test to disprove it . |
| 5 | Katarina ( Tinka ) Medau , Hinrich and Senta Medau 's daughter , will be in Europe next summer and has offered to take a course for us . |
| 6 | To help his British colleagues catch the selectors ' eyes , Tea Ropati , St Helens ' New Zealand three-quarter , has volunteered to take a substitute 's role at Warrington today in a match Saints can not afford to lose . |
| 7 | He stopped dictating to take a phone call and I saw his face become shocked , then very grave . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is right : he has raised one of the areas in which Britain has tried to take a lead in the discussions in the Community . |
| 9 | Since the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act , which made this possible , CPRW has continued to take a keen interest in ensuring that the protection afforded by this designation is effectively applied , especially in the three National Parks of Wales . |
| 10 | But the Butter Information Council ( BIC ) has chosen to take a hard line . |
| 11 | And you 'd got to take a knife , in one hand paper in the other paper in the other for business . . |
| 12 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 13 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 14 | Are people going to have to take a medical before they can go down a street they have been going down all their lives ? ’ |
| 15 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 16 | You are going to need to take a brolly , too ! " |
| 17 | Kelly remembered the lie that she had had to tell to take a day off work . |
| 18 | For instance , a tenant may have agreed to take a lease from a landlord of premises which are free standing and are ready for immediate occupation by the tenant . |
| 19 | He confirms having agreed to take a polygraph test , but says he was not shown the results . |
| 20 | If Bourke recorded some of these conversations with Blake in October he would have had to take a battery-operated audio recorder with him across the common , as well as the two-way radio , and link the two together while lying in the grass talking to Blake . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |
| 22 | I 'd have gone to take a look from beneath . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah 'd have liked to take a look around the Archaeological Museum , but Ah fear we 'd never make it in time through the rush-hour traffic . |
| 24 | She would have liked to take a look at the city 's cathedral square on which Castrum Babenberg , the castle of Bamberg , had once stood . |
| 25 | Perhaps somewhat simplistically , those who favour prohibitions on insider dealing tend to take a lawyer 's perspective , emphasising issues of fairness and justice ; while those who advocate a removal of regulatory controls tend to adopt an economist 's approach , which focuses on efficiency gains and the creation of desirable incentives . |
| 26 | Yeah so we just went pretended to take a photo and she 'd psshoooow and she 'd shoot off . |
| 27 | Social workers really do need to take a stand alongside the old person involved listening and respecting the expressed wishes as far as possible . |
| 28 | We do have to take a leaf , a little bit out of Kenzie 's book from the n the late nineteen thirties and afterwards , that when things are receding , you do n't batten down the hatches , you do n't simply close things in . |
| 29 | In fact it is often something people welcome : why not get paid to take a breath of fresh air ? |
| 30 | She had intended to take a bus , but in the dark everything looked unfamiliar and slightly forbidding . |