Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is in good form and hoping to break the 10-hour barrier today , having already done so in the European Ironman in August , where she took an individual bronze and a team gold medal . |
| 2 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 3 | Apparent exceptions to this trend include sites like Chelmsford , with no known stone defences , and Thorpe-by-Newark , where they take a different alignment . |
| 4 | Horne was educated at Newport Grammar School , joined Newport 's Congregational church and , with the ministry in mind , went to Glasgow University ( MA , 1886 ) and then Mansfield College , Oxford , where he took the three-year college course in theology . |
| 5 | He was educated at Quaker institutions : Sidcot School and Woodbrooke College , Birmingham , where he took the social studies course . |
| 6 | ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again . |
| 7 | ‘ Even has a secret little den where he takes the other members of his gang . |
| 8 | He and Rosie were both impressed by the loose creance work I was doing , so I took a deep breath and removed all the equipment , except for the jesses . |
| 9 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 10 | After her marriage Signor Cantoni 's mother had seemed unable to bear a child so she took a large bunch of carnations to the Madonna and asked her for the gift of a baby . |
| 11 | Although there 's a trail , walking up in the sunshine would be quite unpleasant , so we took a short ride on the incline railway to a more acceptable horizontal trail . |
| 12 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 13 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 14 | An officer who neglects to take a statutory sample which hindsight shows was necessary will find that his omission is more visible to senior staff than his taking a formal sample which is subsequently used in a prosecution by the authority . |
| 15 | On Monday morning Greg had no classes before eleven , so he took the early bus to Burnley and went straight to the Public Library . |
| 16 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 17 | Once he took a large bone from the table and stood it on the Queen 's plate . |
| 18 | So you start off on the basis that you will be entitled to a new lease under the 1954 Act provided you take the necessary steps within the time scale set out in the Act . |
| 19 | And if she took a sudden dislike to a client , or observed one member behaving badly to another , her command , ‘ Out , cunt ! ’ , sent them packing . |
| 20 | Er I 'd just like to come back on three fairly brief points that er one of which was mentioned by Michael Courcier , two of which er relate to that , and were helpfully stimulated in discussion during the tea break , erm Michael Courcier , I think if I got him right , said , he did say we ca n't produce demographic forecasts for post two thousand and six but I think he was fairly guarded in saying it it would n't be wise or or whatever , erm I would suggest in this context , and in the context of , and I use the word emerging and I look for advice as to when emerging regional planning guidance , and when will be the end date of that regional planning guidance , I say we should be looking beyond two thousand and six , I say we can look beyond two thousand and six , and I would suggest we do it in the way of arrange , which would be highly appropriate way of doing it , not too dissimilar to road traffic forecasts , low medium and high growth , and if , to put the point simplistically , if we have arrived at a requirement figure of nine seven for Greater York for a specific period , if we were to either project that forward by five or ten years , obviously we could n't just simply go rata , but if you took a low figure and you halved it on the basis of the make up , the demographic make up , of how the nine seven had been arrived at it would be possible to produce a range , that then relates to the question of a new settlement , and the alternatives during the period to two thousand and six , and beyond , of that new settlement , and I go back again to the greenbelt , it is vitally important to do that in the terms of a long term defined greenbelt , therefore again in that context , I would say it is highly desirable , if not necessary , to revisit the periphery of York , it has not been examined in a local plan , it has not been examined in terms of environmental impact , with all due respect to the Greater York working party their , the level of analysis of those peripheral blocks of land was fairly cursory , on a limited number of planning criteria , if a new settlement is to be assessed alongside expansion of Greater York we have to revisit it in much much greater detail . |
| 21 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 22 | Now if you took a medical practice booklet they range from three hundred and ninety up to twelve hundred . |
| 23 | So you 've only really got Saturday so , if you took the extra night , and then you 've got a ten o'clock sailing Mon you 're back in Lancaster |
| 24 | Which rather proves a point that in fact it was a low period , and therefore if you take a low period historically , which is er includes a a boom in inverted commas , within that , then overall you 're going to end up with a very low figure er in total . |
| 25 | As you wander along the ridge , it 's a long time before you lose sight of its neat white contours , and if you take a strong pair of binoculars on your walk , you can keep an eye on how the housemaid is turning your bed down . |
| 26 | If you take a facial expression anyone of the seven dwarfs and you want to try and give a dramatic idea how to present that face or that attitude to do it just by standing there without curtains opening on you and all that sort of thing it 's quite diffi , it 's quite difficult ! |
| 27 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 28 | If you take a small step inland from Alnmouth , you can enjoy the stunning countryside of north Northumberland and the National Park . |
| 29 | If you take a magic standard then its points value is included with the points value of the regiment . |
| 30 | If you take a balanced view , variegated plants — apart from the odd horrendous freak — contribute enormously to a well-planted garden in lots of different ways . |