Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink . |
| 2 | Only " tough love " is helpful , loving the sufferer but allowing him or her to take the full consequences of all actions caused by the disease . |
| 3 | I got her letter yesterday and I took the first plane . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And we take the second year 's , this is a sales pitch , we take the second year 's payment a year later . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 10 | Yes and we took the whole thing down to the kitchen for the upstairs rooms were just going like this . |
| 11 | And they took the thirty pieces of silver , the sum at which the precious One was priced by the children of Israel … ’ |
| 12 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 13 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
| 14 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |
| 15 | And he took the front piece out of that magazine . |
| 16 | The sarcasm seemed to relieve him a little and he took the black strop of leather from its nail and opened the razor . |
| 17 | He walked to the bed , and he sat , and he took the gaunt hand in his own . |
| 18 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 19 | There 's no money in them and it takes the right machinery to cut them up . |
| 20 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 21 | But I take the humanitarian line that this permits Mr Tim to engage in full imaginative sympathy with those tongues of Babel who throw themselves on his mercy . |
| 22 | This tale is challenged in the notes for the Erato album ; but I take the above quotation from the memoirs of Tchaikovsky 's close friend Nikolay Kashkin , and it rings true enough . |
| 23 | An' I took the bloody pill . |
| 24 | He glanced towards Rain but she took the lofty view that bribing security men was not her concern . |
| 25 | Julia did n't care a sod about that kid , she 'd let her to scream on , stand in the middle of the garden screaming , indoors screaming and she said to me I have no feelings for her whatsoever but she took the bloody money every week and this is what 's so wrong , nobody knows how she er was as that child , only people like us who would hear |
| 26 | But they take the interpretive attitude toward these abstract propositions , and their opinions about Elmer 's legal rights express an interpretation rather than a direct and uncontroversial application of the institution of legislation . |
| 27 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 28 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 29 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 30 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |