Example sentences of "to take [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are radio programmes to listen to on a regular basis , to take away the aimlessness of a lie-in every morning . |
| 2 | Wordsworth returned to his former trust in France , and thought of the British Tory government as ‘ vermin' ( Prelude 1805 , x , 655 ) ; but when the French began to take away the liberty of other countries , Wordsworth saw that there was little to choose between the French and any other conquering nation ( Prelude 1805 , x , 792 ff ) . |
| 3 | ‘ So , yes , I would be prepared to resist any kind of armed attempt to take away the liberty which I have to determine my own way in the future . ’ |
| 4 | Double Gloucester and Red Leicester stand out , but even the common cheddar has a dash of something to take away the paleness . |
| 5 | He wins universal applause from his followers and admiration from the reader , despite the fact that he is going to take away the paradise which may still have been ours . |
| 6 | to take away the guilt of man 's sin . |
| 7 | Labour 's Derek Foster said he would lobby Agriculture Minister John Gummer to overturn a decision by the Intervention Board to take away the licence for certifying steers castrated bulls . |
| 8 | David saw the effect his words had had on her and quickly tried to take away the sting . |
| 9 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 10 | What 's actually covered on the policy there I mean obviously if if you get let's take the first point as regards the if the vehicle is n't right from the day of purchase , then obviously the redress is with the dealer obviously erm I mean we 're all aware of that situation , and obviously the idea of the policy is not to take away the dealer 's liability the dealer 's liability remains , as you would know . |
| 11 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 12 | And we , we , the permission was given to take away the garage . |
| 13 | The finished designs , although offering partial projection were not sufficient to take away the focus of attention from the participants themselves , for they were now all in ‘ dramatic time ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The aim would be a semi-humorous approach to take away the image of the Church as boring . |
| 15 | Suspended in a harness against a spiralling screen , he asks a hypnotherapist to take away the pain of loving someone who does not love him : to detox him . |
| 16 | This is what I 'll do — an injection to take away the pain and reduce the bruising and a few tablets for you to give today and tomorrow . |
| 17 | Then you have a drug to take away the pain of the drug that is killing the cancer cells which unfortunately makes you sick and then they give you something to try to reduce that sickness , so you have one battling the other , battling the other . |
| 18 | If you stayed still , you could die of cholera , chlorine gas , gangrene , typhoid or trench foot that soldiers stuck bayonets through to take away the pain . |
| 19 | There 's , we , we 've been struggling and trying to do ourselves and all we have to do is to allow Christ to come in to our lives , because he died to take away the sin , he dealt with the route cause of it , Christ in you , the hope of glory . |
| 20 | They were united , too by a common aim ; they both wanted to do what they could to restore normal life in that community , to take away the fear and to see justice done . |
| 21 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 22 | Camille walked down a sleazy stretch of road , where half the shops were closing as the developers quadrupled the rents , and bought herself an ice-cream to take away the taste of margaritas : it was already midday , so she had only an hour or two before she could go home , claiming that her games lesson had been cancelled because someone had felled the netball posts . |
| 23 | While Carradine slept , I tried to take away the taste of defeat and Kelly 's coffee with a shot or fourteen . |
| 24 | Something was needed to take away the taste of the coffee and the interview with the AC . |
| 25 | ‘ But he wants you all to himself — and he 's found the best way to do that is to take away the pleasure you find in singing . |
| 26 | After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency . |
| 27 | On training , we plan to take forward the dynamic of the TEC movement . |
| 28 | Well erm my Lord I do n't know whether you 'd like to take certainly the rest of the afternoon and sit again tomorrow at ten thirty to get a clean start , having read all the documentation or whether you feel that you could read it before then . |
| 29 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 30 | This makes the conclusion reached all the more impressive , and certainly forces one to take seriously the possibility that even low-level exposure to lead may have gravely deleterious effects on children 's behaviour and intelligence . |