Example sentences of "take at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelsall argued for the fundamental reform , academically and architecturally , of Oxford and Cambridge , urging them to ‘ Take at last measures to keep peace with the improvements made in the present age , in all the departments of science and art . ’ |
| 2 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 3 | Most of the shots in this collection , however , were taken at first light including those of which Nigel is most proud : ‘ If I have to choose a favourite it would be the photograph of Bryce Canyon in Utah . |
| 4 | Most of the shots in this collection , however , were taken at first light including those of which Nigel is most proud : ‘ If I have to choose a favourite it would be the photograph of Bryce Canyon in Utah . |
| 5 | But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies , halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere . |
| 6 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 7 | The step which for decades successive tsars had contemplated but abandoned in the face of noble opposition was taken at last . |