Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 2 | An individual 's attitude to the question of the political context in which the legal system operates will depend on whether he or she takes a supportive attitude to the political status quo or wishes to challenge it . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a mixed community and everyone takes a great pride in the village . |
| 4 | Because I took midwifery and I took a little bit of erm school nursing and general you know , so that I was capable take a district on Anglesey . |
| 5 | So I closed the top of the copier and I took a blank piece of paper and again I concentrated on the idea of this woman 's surprise and then transfixion when she saw my memo until I was hard again . |
| 6 | If you must know — Silas and I took a short walk along the track — ’ |
| 7 | An East and West Association had been formed and I took an early opportunity of asking if I might address it . |
| 8 | But I 'll just pick up , if the original sum assured was a hundred thousand , and you need , and you took the additional insurability option , you could obviously have twenty five thousand with is a quarter , and that 's the maximum you can have anyway . |
| 9 | Oh and who took the wrong road going across . |
| 10 | I passed the pack and she took a small gold lighter from her purse . |
| 11 | About this time a new librarian , Suzy Chaplin , arrived at our school and she took a keen interest in anything the students were doing . |
| 12 | Emily was being handed down to stand before the light-filled doorway of the Assembly Rooms and she took a deep breath of anticipation , this was her night , the night she was to be accepted as an adult and she would make the most of it . |
| 13 | The air smelled clean and fresh after the smoky little hut , and she took a deep breath , feeling her spirits lift . |
| 14 | He sat back in his seat , his knowing eyes never leaving her , and she took a deep breath , desperately trying to steady the sudden rush of adrenalin charging round her body . |
| 15 | He stepped out of her way and she took a deep breath as she ran to the door and slammed it shut behind her . |
| 16 | Someone passed her a fresh joint and she took a deep drag , feeling the smoke burn her throat . |
| 17 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 18 | Jack , for God 's sake — ’ Her voice cracked and she took a steadying breath . |
| 19 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 20 | And we take a long range view if you 're heading on the motorways this afternoon . |
| 21 | Our heart pumps faster , and we take a firm grip on the large , green-and-white golf umbrella by which Denice has been told to recognize us . |
| 22 | Evidently I did not see fighters go down that day but I know they did but this was a first realization as if there was somebody up there to kill me and I guess this is the point at which you realize that you are going to kill them before they kill you and all of a sudden we are in combat all our lives and we take a complete change in outlook from everything because up to now everything had been practise and training just for this except we did not have that realization that they are there to kill us , who 's gon na be killed first ? |
| 23 | The gross savings rate out of output Y is assumed to depend on the capital-labour ratio ( the nature of this dependence is discussed below ) , and we take the simple case of a proportionate rate of depreciation , y , often referred to as ‘ radioactive decay ’ . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 25 | When he did show signs of depression I could usually shake him out of it , and we took a schoolboyish delight in finding ways to disconcert Ralph 's snooty man , Talbot , who brought morning coffee and afternoon tea up to the library , and evidently disapproved or both us and our enterprise . |
| 26 | Beautiful white , pastel pink and blue houses nestle in the cliffs and we took the funicular railway down the cliff side to the pretty harbour at Skala for a closer view and a donkey ride back up through the twisting mountain road . |
| 27 | Yes and we took the whole thing down to the kitchen for the upstairs rooms were just going like this . |
| 28 | But they won a fair fight and they took a tremendous lot of trouble and they really did a very good campaign , there 's no question about that at all . |
| 29 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 30 | And they took a long time serving it . |