Example sentences of "he [verb] to take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 2 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 3 | He failed to take a wicket at Sydney in the next Test , and helped Gibbs to a reciprocal three wickets in four balls by falling to the first he received . |
| 4 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
| 5 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 6 | In a stunning leap of logic Torino fined him a further £200 when he failed to take the field the following week against Inter-Milan . |
| 7 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 8 | Lawrence takes a deep breath and starts off again , with this massive approach , comes in now to , it 's short and it ends in a way I think probably off the body , he tried to take the bottom hand away again , that , that they do seemed to be trying this angle of attack at him , as Botham there at leg gully and a short leg and they 're trying to be , do n't forget the balls at 's ribcage , he 's certainly troubled by that one . |
| 9 | He moved to take the figure to twenty . |
| 10 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 11 | However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks . |
| 12 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 13 | For example it monitors driving times and can tell a driver when he needs to take a break . |
| 14 | A CRAZED donkey nearly tore the arm off an eight-year-old boy as he stopped to take a holiday snap . |
| 15 | He beat to take the coveted first prize in a hard-fought battle at the Sneyd Arms , Sneyd Green . |
| 16 | In 1974 the Secretary of State , Mr Gordon Campbell , announced that after discussions with the Lord Advocate , he proposed to take no further action and a year later , after a change of government , his Labour successor Mr William Ross said he was n't going to act either . |
| 17 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
| 18 | He wants to take a ‘ portrait ’ of me . |
| 19 | Not even his crew know when he wants to take the wheel . |
| 20 | He wants to take the M&S formula one step further ‘ by offering the customer more flexibility ’ . |
| 21 | The cop is saying through his bullhorn that he wants to take the baby . |
| 22 | I said there was to be a sale , but I would ask the solicitor ; and afterwards , when he came to take the barometer away , he took it down from the wall very , very gently . |
| 23 | He seemed to take a pessimistic view of your complaint , whatever it was . |
| 24 | He seemed to take no interest in his wife 's wealth as such ; in fact Alexandra could never remember him buying anything unless it was for the farm or some little thing for her . |
| 25 | He seemed to take an interest in me . |
| 26 | Passionately anxious to serve Carlotta , he undertakes to take a message from her to Don Manuel , at a time when he and his followers are seriously threatened by the dictator . |
| 27 | But it was a tersely worded compliment , and as he turned to take an olive from the tray of hors-d'oeuvres already laid out on a side-table , her stabbing disappointment told Belinda that he was the person she had really dressed up for today , though what she wanted to prove to him she did n't quite know . |
| 28 | But he was so shocked by the experience in Preston , Lancs , he forgot to take the car number . |
| 29 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 30 | The man is on a mission and he intends to take no prisoners . |