Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a poppy song , ‘ What I Do ’ , in which she dances around in leggings and a bra top , and a cover of Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz 's Sixties hit ‘ The Girl From Ipanema ’ done in smoky café style , where she takes advantage of the sensual Puerto Rican looks she inherited from her mother . |
| 2 | She took advantage of the last half-hour before the grimy little park closed to wander round it . |
| 3 | I , I , er I used to have an inspector when I was on traffic and he says you take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves . |
| 4 | Six different shelf settings allow you to take advantage of the zoned heat and , like all models in the range , it features a vitreous enamelled roasting tin and an air-washed door ; one of the coolest , and easiest to clean , of any cooker . |
| 5 | ‘ I can either trust you and allow you to take charge of the whole business , or I can decide you 're not to be trusted and take charge of things myself . |
| 6 | This is the difficult thing , how , how do we take account of the sub offices of erm Scarborough and , and Northallerton ? |
| 7 | And so we took advantage of the tender and the contractor being in th in the area , to extend the water pipeline from its current location at the football stadi erm er pavilion , through to the cemetery . |
| 8 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |
| 9 | We took advantage of the excellent opportunity of monetary conditions coming within their limits to end all the speculation about when we should go in , and go in . |
| 10 | If we take account of the changing age structure of the population and the rising relative costs of the elderly , NHS expenditure on an age-weighted basis fell in volume terms in the 1980s . |
| 11 | Could they take advantage of the new offer ? 2 . |
| 12 | The methods used , it is argued , fail to recognise their different cultural background , nor do they take account of the different needs of children who at home speak languages other than English . |
| 13 | When the Motor City 's techno scene was dying in the early ‘ 90s , they took hold of the tattered flag and now it stands proud and menacing . |
| 14 | It was just great the way they took care of the old lady . |
| 15 | Careful experiments have made it clear that they take note of the geographical features below them and when leaving their home loft they circle above it as if refreshing their memory with one last look before departing . |
| 16 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 17 | It also makes it clear that those artificial targets can be revised and that should be the focus of our campaign to make sure that they are revised , to make sure that they take account of the real concerns in the real world . |
| 18 | Glasgow City Brightsiders are the only one of the leading men 's sides in action and they can overtake Edinburgh Burger Kings at the top of the men 's first division if , as they should , they take care of the young Cumnock team at Cumnock Academy tomorrow . |
| 19 | The new system continues the services provided by its predecessor , but it takes advantage of the latest developments in technology to provide a high quality service in the most cost-effective way . |
| 20 | We 've attempted to design a system which is friendly in that it takes account of the different needs that a person will have at different times while trying to communicate with a computer . |
| 21 | In his fantasias and toccatas it is not difficult to trace Venetian influences , particularly in the six fantasias ‘ in the manner of an echo ’ where he takes advantage of the two manuals of the organ to ‘ echo ’ motives duly marked f and p . |
| 22 | Finally , I 'd refer you to erm the Secretary of State 's decision letter of the twenty sixth of November nineteen eighty where in paragraph one he takes note of the recent justification and in paragraph six four , he states that overall , the Secretary of State broadly approves the main objective of the housing policies of the plan of reducing inward migration into the county . |
| 23 | In order to define mental alienation and abnormality , the psychiatrist must first know what is normal , accepted and socially approved ; since these vary in different cultures and subcultures he will be completely at sea outside his own milieu unless he takes account of the cultural factor . |
| 24 | He took advantage of the noisy arrival of Auguste 's staff to beat a judicious retreat , as Auguste hurled imprecations after him , based largely on the fate that would await him should the goose come to any harm as a result of his incursions into the chef 's sovereign territory . |
| 25 | Moving into summer , he took advantage of the dry weather and lived more outdoors than in , drawing the same subjects repeatedly if they appealed to him , toiling incessantly in an effort to improve himself . |
| 26 | Then he took account of the finite size of the planets and treated them as spheres . |
| 27 | He took control of the national drugs intelligence unit , the national soccer intelligence unit and seven regional criminal intelligence offices . |
| 28 | Although Taylor made Lineker his captain , when he took charge of the national side after the 1990 World Cup Finals , it was n't long before hostility emerged between the pair . |
| 29 | Parents are extremely keen to have their children admitted to the college because they want them to take advantage of the excellent education that it offers . |
| 30 | ‘ I propose therefore that Customs should be given some discretion to mitigate the penalties for some misdeclarations , to enable them to take account of the individual circumstances of the trader . ’ |