Example sentences of "take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 2 | I 've took illegal drugs and prescribed drugs . |
| 3 | On his return to the Works , the horseman was challenged by Mason , as to the reason the horses were tethered in this location , ‘ I was took short sir ’ he said ‘ Oh ’ , replied Mason : ‘ It looked as though you were thirsty ! ! — do n't let it happen again' . |
| 4 | Inquiries must continue , however , to discover if Trevor Graham , a chartered surveyor , takes rural walks . |
| 5 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 6 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 7 | The council says it would welcome the chance to expand on the submission when the inquiry takes oral evidence . |
| 8 | This does not worry him , since he takes political Realism to be a limiting case whose usefulness has less to do with describing the actual conduct of foreign policy than with providing a way of explaining it . |
| 9 | It now looks a big mistake to have joined the ERM at all , at any exchange rate , without first having created political institutions capable of running monetary policy in a way that takes due consideration of the needs of all members of the European Community . |
| 10 | The Unit has 26 academic staff and takes full-time PhD students . |
| 11 | In the steepest , wettest areas , stock-rearing takes complete precedence , and little , if any , arable farming is undertaken . |
| 12 | The defendant in a personal injuries action is likely to be represented by an insurance company , which takes complete control of and financial responsibility for the claim . |
| 13 | To deal with this , a steady traffic of lorries takes solid waste from the plant to the nearby Drigg dump . |
| 14 | In light of this , anybody who takes strange tablets should observe certain basic precautions . |
| 15 | Objectification describes the inevitable process by which all expression , conscious or unconscious , social or individual , takes specific form . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 17 | Rather than store a bitmap of each character at every size it might be required , something that takes prodigious amounts of memory or disk storage , they used a single digital outline of the character and generated the required bitmap on demand . |
| 18 | The direct way takes shattered cracks straight up the wall ahead , tending R to a good ledge on crest in 35m . |
| 19 | Mark 's acceptance at Oxford proves it takes different strokes , different brush strokes that is , to move the world . |
| 20 | The movement takes different forms across the world but its common understanding is built upon a social model of health ( 6 ) . |
| 21 | It takes different people different lengths of time to conceive . |
| 22 | It takes different people different lengths of time to conceive . |
| 23 | It takes different people different styles who like to do different things to different meanings to be part of the rest . |
| 24 | He runs day classes and in the summer he takes residential students . |
| 25 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 26 | Do you think at the moment society in Britain , in Scotland takes proper account of that variety of options , or do you think undue stress is put on one er one or other ? |
| 27 | However , her RSI could become a recurring problem unless she takes careful precautions . |
| 28 | Creating the climate in which such tough talking can occur is a highly skilled task and takes careful preparation . |
| 29 | But then making life easier for the passenger is what BAA is all about , and to do so successfully takes careful planning . |
| 30 | Carl is putting a dart into a Diana airgun ; he takes careful aim — then Bingo ! |