Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was privately educated , and then went to Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford , where she took a third class in classical honour moderations in 1897 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Apparent exceptions to this trend include sites like Chelmsford , with no known stone defences , and Thorpe-by-Newark , where they take a different alignment . |
| 5 | He resumed his studies in 1948 at New College , Oxford , where he took a first class honours degree and was called to the bar a year later . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was educated at Quaker institutions : Sidcot School and Woodbrooke College , Birmingham , where he took the social studies course . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Even has a secret little den where he takes the other members of his gang . |
| 10 | ‘ So I take a few risks , ’ I snap . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although it takes a few minutes for the body to send out any strong signals of satiety it is probable that chewing and swallowing movements do begin to send messages to the brain . |
| 17 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 18 | On Monday morning Greg had no classes before eleven , so he took the early bus to Burnley and went straight to the Public Library . |
| 19 | on ends , so he took the two ends off , cleaned the rails and he was sat on settee watching telly rubbing away and rubbing away and I says hey you gon na put them ends back on ? |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Once he took a large bone from the table and stood it on the Queen 's plate . |
| 22 | . If I take the same example , waiver of premium , erm , and I 'm relating to knowledge that I will have got through the plan your future document , if I use Andrew again if I may , if I say to you , Andrew , erm , you explained earlier that erm , if you 're off work through ill-health , your employer will actually pay you for six months , and then it stops . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If you took a living body and cut it up into ever smaller pieces , you would eventually come down to specks of pure protoplasm . |
| 27 | So if you took a six week period then you 're looking at somewhere around four and a half thousand pounds worth of income . |
| 28 | Now if you took a medical practice booklet they range from three hundred and ninety up to twelve hundred . |
| 29 | → If you took a dozen sheets of clear cellophane , drew around a dozen different guitar designs , including Strat , PRS , Ibanez , Jackson and various others , then laid them on top of one another , you 'd be surprised at how little difference there actually is between them . |
| 30 | If you took the lowest number of booklets which is two and a half thousand which is probably may be a two sometimes three three doctor practice |