Example sentences of "[adv prt] and take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 2 | they step in and take a positive lead when things are n't progressing well . |
| 3 | I tucked her in and took the empty cup to the kitchen . |
| 4 | ‘ It should be a warning to them that if they 're really serious about fighting drug abuse , they need to step in and take a leading role . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 6 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 7 | ‘ If yu keep straight on and take the first turnin' on your left , yu 'll be at Sunset Cottage in quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 8 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 9 | He nodded his satisfaction and let go , and she wrenched it off and took a deep breath . |
| 10 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 11 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |
| 12 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 13 | The Colonel strode up and took the dead woman in his arms . |
| 14 | ‘ And I know that when the pressure is on , I can get up and take a 20-minute walk around the reserve and come back again . |
| 15 | Get it out and take a close look at it . |
| 16 | He cleared the board and was about to play again when the boy 's hand reached out and took a white stone from the bowl to his left . |
| 17 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |
| 18 | Wages for housework bypasses all those other struggles — well , I mean , with wages for housework , women would n't have to go out and take a second job . |
| 19 | It therefore follows that even if you are two points ahead at the 30 seconds ' bell , the opponent can still pull these back and take the final point to win . |
| 20 | Your heart would go out to her , Wilson , if you were to see how she struggles to be her old self but is exhausted after a mere ten minutes of conversation , and then she is obliged to fall back and take no more part in it though wishing to do so . |
| 21 | We have suggested that a feature of leadership is the ability to stand back and take the wider perspective . |
| 22 | Throughout the development of the project I have had to step back and take an honest look at my way of working . |
| 23 | Some writers , according to Janssen-Jurreit , turned Grimm 's thesis around and took the grammatical gender of a word as evidence of whether what it denoted was masculine or feminine . |
| 24 | The wee lad put his hand on my haunch , then he slid it round and took a firm grip of my trousers . |