Example sentences of "take [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been helping everybody who 's took that flu , and I think I 've . |
| 2 | I would 'ave took that title , Danny , ’ he said passionately , his voice almost breaking with a note of despair . |
| 3 | that 's right , I mean she 's , she 's took some money , or taken some money if , I mean she 'll be home twelve o'clock if it do n't suit her like |
| 4 | Nobody 's even took any notice of it . |
| 5 | She takes little exercise , does not even walk much , and prefers to use the car or public transport . |
| 6 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 7 | IT 'S A fact that a fit 70-year-old has the same heart work-rate efficiency as a 30-year-old who takes little exercise . |
| 8 | It takes little knowledge of history to appreciate that relatively few of the battles recorded in history have had a decisive effect upon the future of those involved . |
| 9 | Referring to it as an artificial " pampered velveteen system " , the union journal was scathing about its " pretentions " : The small office in Edinburgh called the Caledonian Press … was opened a year ago , under the patronage of many of the nobility and members of the learned professions : yet with all its boasting about promoting the employment of women … and opening up a fresh field … to the " surplus female population " … it actually employs fewer women than any simple respectable milliner , of whose philanthropy the world takes little note . |
| 10 | After Strichen , Banff , where verification of their visit takes little time ; a plaque on a wall reads : ‘ Site of the Black Bull Inn visited by Johnson and Boswell , 1773 ’ . |
| 11 | This stage takes little time after pauses , L1 originals , and the resource person 's voicings have been edited out . |
| 12 | Peter takes little comfort from the fact that the exploration is now centred in an area north of the Doolough Valley , so that any future mining is likely to leave his own watershed unaffected . |
| 13 | It takes little imagination to foretell the likely consequences of just one peg disintegrating and flinging its spring or its free arm into the cutter gap during a pass ; or the possible knock-on effect(s) on the rest of the makeshift assembly and the astonished operator if this should happen . |
| 14 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |
| 15 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
| 16 | Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord . |
| 17 | Her husband is having an on-off fling which he does not openly admit , but takes little trouble to disguise |
| 18 | A stable , or resilient world , at another extreme , takes little notice of our presence . |
| 19 | While the Dutch government is actively planning to reduce the number of hospital beds , particularly those for long-stay patients , it takes little notice of the reality of mental health care in The Netherlands , cherishing various misconceptions regarding institutionalism and community care . |
| 20 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 21 | He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like . |
| 22 | Tom Watson 's interests are mainly technical , and he takes little interest in the retail side of the business . |
| 23 | It takes little effort of the imagination to put oneself in Theo 's shoes , and feel the grey , correct , judicious side of his character flinching from the terrifying sincerity of Vincent 's outpourings . |
| 24 | However , this idealized picture takes little account of reality . |
| 25 | Man takes little account of such greater cycles . |
| 26 | It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful . |
| 27 | Too often , however , the current concern with curriculum takes little account of what individual pupils bring to the tasks they are required to perform , concentrating instead on the specification of structured and graded teaching steps that will help to ensure that all pupils progress in a predetermined sequence towards a predetermined goal . |
| 28 | Fisher ( 1990 ) has pointed out that the community care reforms are based upon a conception of case management which takes little account of those people for whom services have , mandatorily , to be provided , but who refuse to accept them . |
| 29 | Finally Big Bear takes Little Bear out to show that the darkness is n't as black as it seems — and he falls asleep in it , in Big Bear 's arms . |
| 30 | Another Kunsthalle project takes that idea one step further . |