Example sentences of "take the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The death instincts provide what might be termed the ‘ negative energy ’ that is used in the compulsion to repeat unpleasant experiences , which is a masochistic use of primal , sadistic impulses which take the ego as object , rather than an external object . |
| 2 | Regular clearance is crucial , but allocations of aid and government budgets rarely take the cost of maintenance into account . |
| 3 | The other issue arising here is whether you take the cost of the chairs out of the asset account and show them as an expense each time a sale is made or whether this is done at the end of the month . |
| 4 | Millions of BBC viewers watched Prime Suspect , starring Helen Mirren , take the award for best drama serial at last month 's British ‘ Oscars ’ ceremony . |
| 5 | Millions of BBC viewers watched Prime Suspect , starring Helen Mirren , take the award for best drama serial at last month 's British ‘ Oscars ’ ceremony . |
| 6 | I take the bed by the wall , behind the curtain . |
| 7 | And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is |
| 8 | Take the dish to the table so the smell of garlic and herbs is released as you unseal the lid . |
| 9 | Take the skin off chicken before cooking . |
| 10 | It has a very high fat content , so eat more white meat and fish and take the skin off poultry . |
| 11 | I mean take the take the skin off it . |
| 12 | Take the sign of the Cross … |
| 13 | Take the sign of the cross . |
| 14 | This evidence that most men take the threat of AIDS seriously was backed up by comments made on the questionnaires and in the discussion groups . |
| 15 | The war against Chaos begins in earnest as the Elf Dragonriders descend from Caledor and take the fight to the enemy . |
| 16 | Take the tone of the company that you are in . |
| 17 | Take the crack through these then traverse delicately leftwards to reach a good ledge . |
| 18 | BT could , if given the incentive and the wherewithal , take the country into a genuine information revolution that goes far beyond the plans for cable television . |
| 19 | Edward Topsel , the English naturalist , writing in 1658 stipulated that , to cure blindness , or pains in the eye : ‘ Take the head of a black Cat , which hath not a spot of another colour in it , and burn it to powder in an earthen pot leaded or glazed within , then take this powder and through a quill blow it thrice a day into the eye ’ — the italics were not used in the original , but are to draw attention to the crucial quality of the black cat who is about to lose his head . |
| 20 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 21 | Spiky but supremely stylish : prickly perennials take the state on page 64 |
| 22 | In some areas , the downpipes lead to trapped gullies , which in turn take the water to the inspection chambers connected to the main drain leading to the sewer ( see Chapter 5 for details ) . |
| 23 | The bible closes there in Revelation chapter twenty two with that invitation , an invitation to a select you know , an invitation to all , there almost in the , in the last few verses , verse seventeen , the spirit and the bride say what come and let the one who hears say come and let the one who is thirsty come and let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost , the invitation is to all , so it 's quite clear that all maybe saved , but it 's equally clear , a second proposition that all will not be saved |
| 24 | She sat in the stalls and watched the director , a thin , bald man with a gingery beard whose name was Vic or Mick or Dick or something , take the company through Act One of the show . |
| 25 | Outlets for the lottery — which could include post offices as well as small shops and newsagents — will sell scratch-off cards for the minor games at the same time as they take the money for the lottery . |
| 26 | And a new book claims William Shakespeare wrote none of his plays but did look after the costumes and take the money on the door . |
| 27 | ‘ Righto , Mr Fisher , I 'll be here and if I 'm not in the kitchen take the money from the old teapot . ’ |
| 28 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 29 | that er I , two insurances I take the money in every month |
| 30 | I take the bearing from me , you 're on a bearing of forty five degrees , now , you take a bearing on me , and tell me where I am . |