Example sentences of "take [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Bassanio asked the doctor , a dressed up Portia , how he could pay her , she answered that she would take nothing but the ring . |
| 2 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 3 | Team-teaching alongside a knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleague can effectively take one to the next stage . |
| 4 | Let me take one from the passage read to us : Philippians 4 . |
| 5 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 6 | So you 've got to watch what you take and if it 's not necessary you do n't take it if you 've got any sense but if you 're gon na take everything on the assumption ju just in case , the just in case , just in cases you know , do n't work all these the fail-safes ten times over you 're overloaded , ah but you 're so much unnecessary weight it all comes back unused , untouched . |
| 7 | Luther would wait until dark , when the rest of the family had vacated the kitchen , then would take everything from the larder , spreading it on the table , spilling it on the floor , and generally inflicting mayhem on a hitherto spotless environment . |
| 8 | I received a letter this morning from the social security office stating that it can not take anything off the income support of one woman who is being pursued for arrears because she is too poor . |
| 9 | And you just But as we were saying er talking to Janet afterwards there was another little one down at the side , erm mum was getting a bit irate with him , but you see they do n't take anything for the children to do . |
| 10 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |