Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 2 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 3 | ‘ Honestly , how they get away with such stuff — it 's bad enough they take a large commission , but to sit on the money as long as they do … ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly he took the visionary image of his own manhood into his arms , his ruffled hair against the stone curls , and burst into a storm of silent weeping . |
| 5 | No apparently it takes the whole top of it |
| 6 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 7 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 8 | So he took a young lamb , whose mother had died , and carried it in a basket across the fields to Mrs Hurst 's house . |
| 9 | So he took an extraordinary step , going directly to Moktadir , the Moslem ruler of Saragossa , and pledging his sword and men to the Moorish prince . |
| 10 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 11 | It was in front of 72,000 people in the Stadium , half a billion people around the world and so it took an incredible amount of getting hold of myself to do it . |
| 12 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
| 13 | And he just he took no diving notice and they all were giggling at me . |
| 14 | Finally he took a whole lot of bottles out in the hope that in the ensuing muddle they would all finally be fitted in . |
| 15 | Finally he took the bass part of some airs of Handel … and played the most beautiful melody on it and in such a manner that everyone was amazed . |
| 16 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 17 | Fifteen minutes later she took a deep breath , desperately trying to steady the nerves fluttering like trapped birds in the pit of her stomach . |
| 18 | Inevitably it takes a great deal of time to go into these cases . |
| 19 | Now he took a deep breath and forced himself to keep calm . |
| 20 | Every so often he took a square-shaped flask from the inside pocket of his coat and stuck it to his lips like a trumpet . |
| 21 | More often it takes the plural form , indicating partition of the property between co-heiresses , like Agnes Chaplayne and Beatrix Salesbury at Gayhurst , Bucks . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly they take the easy way out when food is put out for them each day . |
| 23 | Here they take an intransigent line , denying that Wittgenstein was at all impressed by such questions . |
| 24 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
| 25 | Eventually he took a short lease on a much smaller house in Upper Brook Street . |
| 26 | Eventually he took a hefty drop in income by abandoning the lucrative corridors of merchant bank Kleinwort Benson . |
| 27 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 28 | Then I took a deep breath . |
| 29 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 30 | Sometimes I take the brown Austin . |