Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] 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 | He nodded his satisfaction and let go , and she wrenched it off and took a deep breath . |
| 8 | Joe got out slowly , stiffly , and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The grey sidled up and took the proffered titbit and then suddenly bucked and danced away . |
| 11 | The Colonel strode up and took the dead woman in his arms . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Instead of turning back or taking the upper channel , a long cul-de-sac ending at a floodgate , Dennis beached the punt on the rollers forming a portage over the weir . |
| 14 | Get it out and take a close look at it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Throughout the development of the project I have had to step back and take an honest look at my way of working . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The wee lad put his hand on my haunch , then he slid it round and took a firm grip of my trousers . |