Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle won six of the 12 relay races and easily took the top club trophy with 220 points . |
| 2 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 3 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 4 | He was a dedicated professional , who claimed ‘ I sacrifice everything for cricket , never stop out late and always take the greatest care of myself . ’ |
| 5 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 6 | In September 1 158 Henry travelled to Paris and then took the little girl back to Normandy with him . |
| 7 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 8 | Turn right and continue until you reach the buildings of Dykeheads and then take the rough track to the left . |
| 9 | Generally , however , he travelled undisturbed ; he would alight from the bus at Piccadilly Circus and then take the underground railway to Russell Square . |
| 10 | Make your way to the southern side of Loch Assynt and follow the shore as long as you can and then take the easiest line of travel staying parallel to the loch . |
| 11 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 12 | She could remember someone or something smashing the back of her head , and then taking the high dive into ice-cream country . |
| 13 | At one gig in Cork they were so skint they could n't afford to buy beer , and instead took the crusty way out and raided the local mixture . |
| 14 | Medical schools fail their students if they fail to nurture their minds and instead take the easier option of merely imparting factual information . |
| 15 | And er he used to pop in and occasionally take the fifth class , whether it was because it was near to his office I do n't know . |
| 16 | With a small sigh , Gina replaced her mug on the table and reluctantly took the offered handshake . |
| 17 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 18 | Lack of precision in being able to provide a quotation can often confuse a client and therefore takes the commercial edge away from your particular firm . |