Example sentences of "take his [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Old man takes his bloody dinner in there .
2 One takes his net loss from the date of the accident up to the date of the trial and awards him that sum .
3 BLACKBURN boss Kenny Dalglish takes his expensive collection of stars to rough and tumble Wimbledon today , insisting : ‘ I ca n't wrap them up in cotton wool . ’
4 GEORGE GRAHAM takes his misfiring Gunners into Coca-Cola Cup battle tonight at Highbury against old club Millwall admitting his team are not yet good enough .
5 He takes his terminal care in the pub : ‘ Can you make that a large one , Ben , the other one went too quickly . ’
6 BOY wonder Nicholas MacMahon enters a brave new world as he takes his first tentative taps on a computer keyboard .
7 Joking Leslie takes his first step to fitness
8 Spotted Eagle takes his new lifestyle seriously .
9 And one of the servants takes his one talent and he uses it and he works very hard with it and he buys erm raw goods and he makes things and he he a makes his one talent up into ten .
10 At the same time it is implied that when Re takes his eternal position in the sky , the power of his name will remain on earth , invested in the living Horus , the king .
11 The art of vituperation comes naturally to Busi , and , although the picture of Northern Italian provincial life ( in the vicinity of Brescia ) which the author paints occupies only a small part of the novel , which takes his picaresque hero on to greater things in Milan , Paris and London , it is a memorable picture , and provides the necessary underpinning to a writing that spares no effort to make the reader understand the nature of the social and sexual domination .
12 But Balboa 's hill — if that really is the hill to which William takes his occasional visitors — is quite unmarked .
13 ‘ Have n't you noticed how often he takes his dear friend Councillor Waverly out to lunch ? ’
14 The former Wimbledon boss takes his vastly-improved Sheffield United side to Loftus Road today , full of praise for the way Gerry Francis has transformed Rangers ' fortunes .
15 The very Spanish serenader of ‘ La sérénade interrompue ’ takes his intended by storm rather than stealth and ‘ Voiles ’ is hardly sans rigueur et caressant .
16 The relatives and friends who are left behind can also become entrapped in an overwhelming feeling that says ‘ I must be there when he takes his last breath ’ ; ‘ I must n't miss any last word he utters ’ .
17 The Rev Bernard Brownbridge takes his last service as vicar of Birdsall and Langton , near Malton , on Easter Sunday .
18 Heathen savages are unlikely to belong to any church and even if they did there 's no blessing for a fool who takes his own life . ’
19 Zande say that a suicide takes his own life ‘ because he is bewitched ’ : ‘ witchcraft ’ killed him .
20 Metaphysics — the white mythology which reassembles and reflects the culture of the West : the white man takes his own mythology , Indo-European mythology , his own logos , that is , the mythos of his idiom , for the universal form of that he must still wish to call Reason .
21 Mike takes his free mornings lying down
22 Tony takes his treble chance in fine style
23 Takes his changed body into the holes of lakes ;
24 Clail , currently on British tour , takes his On-U Sound System to Preston Lancashire Polytechnic on March 17 , and not Lancaster Polytechnic as previously stated .
25 ‘ I find out when Carmichael takes his next delivery .
26 The crunch could come when Mr Jones takes his next aid convoy to Romania on April 5 .
27 Paul takes his carry-all from under the seat .
28 And in the recent article he had read on the subject , even the sergeant in charge of the course had not believed that any woman would take his one piece of infallible advice .
29 When his racing days are over , probably around the ripe old age of four , PJ will take his well-earned retirement with fellow pets Jessie the golden retriever and Bobby the cat at the family home in Hornchurch … and maybe catch up on some of that lost sleep !
30 WALTER SMITH will take his injury-ravaged squad out to lunch today aware that , in the present , stricken climate at Ibrox , food poisoning is one of the few afflictions not to have hit his players before their European Champions League tie with FC Brugge on Wednesday , writes Hugh Keevins .
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