Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I mean , today okay only one goal against Charlton , tremendous performance by Bolder , the post and the bar , but Oxford United do score goals and they took great chances to score goals erm it 's difficult today is n't it . |
| 2 | The Labour party warned the Government of the time bomb that was being being created by their policies months before they took any action to try to stem the flow of repossessions . |
| 3 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 4 | So you map it onto the tuple array and then all the tuples so you take each tuple in in order . |
| 5 | At a meeting in Washington the committee adopted a resolution urging the 118 CITES members to enforce a trade embargo on these countries unless they take significant steps to stop the trade . |
| 6 | Looking back on his achievements in the 21-months since he took Ministerial office , the Tory candidate said he wanted to complete the programme of reforms with which he had been involved . |
| 7 | Prop Dean Sampson scored first for the visitors after three minutes and they took complete command when centre Tony Smith struck twice to make it 18–0 . |
| 8 | What does a claimant do then they 've got no money then for six weeks if it takes six weeks . |
| 9 | That this ‘ slippage ’ is so slight is due to the fact that the other Enterprise staff have worked a great deal of extra time and taken on extra responsibilities and I take this opportunity of thanking them for their hard work and support during this period . |
| 10 | But because he waited more than 13 weeks before he took any action , he was too late to lodge an official complaint against his GP . |
| 11 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 12 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 13 | Monitors frequent both Oriental and Australian regions where they take many forms , including the giant Komodo Dragon on the Indonesian island of that name . |
| 14 | When Max Streibl , the incumbent , recently ran into trouble over allegations that he took free trips from a defence company , Mr Waigel spied an escape from his travails in Bonn . |
| 15 | The C E C recommends that we look at the experience of these regions before we take any decisions nationally . |
| 16 | George , 61 , and wife Betty , 60 , have had to watch the pennies since he took early retirement when his hospital was privatised . |
| 17 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 18 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 19 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |