Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] take a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having stressed the problems , it is perhaps worth taking a look at the advantages . |
| 2 | Bleary-eyed actor David Threlfall had n't even time to shave yesterday before taking a bow with his screen princess , Serena Scott Thomas . |
| 3 | Fairly early in Take a girl like you , Patrick delivers himself of an unqualified condemnation of women , which is followed by a sentence from the narrator concerning and presumably condemning Patrick 's attitude to Jenny at that stage , as a girl to be taken and left : ‘ He wanted more than his share of her before anybody else had any . ’ |
| 4 | Former US president Ronald Reagan followed the Queen 's lead yesterday by taking a train to London after speaking in Oxford . |
| 5 | Hammond changed his status from professional to amateur partly through taking a directorship of a tyre company in 1938 — he liked to drive fast cars — and was then selected to captain England . |
| 6 | It 's also worth taking a look at French self-catering specialist Touralp 's brochure ( 071-602 1952 ) . |
| 7 | PLO LEADER Yasser Arafat 's mainstream Fatah movement ended its third meeting in three days early today without taking a decision on a self-rule accord with Israel , a senior PLO official said . |
| 8 | Now Keith and his wife , Joan , are looking forward to taking a holiday in Devon and Cornwall . |