Example sentences of "takes the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Hall takes the pick of the crop , from comics , athletes and rappers . |
| 2 | And Hall takes the pick of the crop , from Brooke Shields ( who whom he posed the question , ‘ You came right out and said you were a virgin , right ? |
| 3 | When an old woman on the mountain curtseys to Marco , when a priest takes the boys to the cave where loyalists have gathered and shows them a portrait of the historic Ivor , the story rises to a climax , but not to the final climax . |
| 4 | Quine on the other hand takes the evidence of one 's senses to concern not what is internal to the observer but what is external to him , that is to say the presence of certain ( public ) stimuli ( Quine , 1975a , p. 73 ) . |
| 5 | What do you think about the Nouveau Realistes , the creators of the Surrealist Object , whose work takes the idea of the object as its point of departure ? |
| 6 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 7 | As a result Taos is object-oriented at a very fine level and it takes the idea of dynamic linking to its logical conclusion . |
| 8 | He takes the idea of " culture " and disassembles it into its constituent parts ; he then goes on to argue , or assert , that it depends upon a class system , upon a variety of regionalism and upon the family . |
| 9 | If an idea originator takes the idea to management prematurely , he or she may get little action . |
| 10 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 11 | He reaches up and takes the oregano off the spice rack . |
| 12 | With demagogic slogans , such as ‘ A German platform for German citizens ’ , the ultra-right simply takes the logic of the Bonn establishment one step further . |
| 13 | The iconoclasm was soon obvious when the reviewer told us , ‘ In seeking to blame Churchill for the end of British Great Power status , the author takes the logic of his 1989 classic , Chamberlain and the Lost Peace , to its intellectual conclusions . ’ |
| 14 | Enter Rooms for Windows , a shell that takes the metaphor of a building to give not just multiple desktops , but also multiple environments , each of which is called a room . |
| 15 | I think she maybe takes the exams in June and gets the results in July and er then we 're fifty in August and then we go off to North America in September I think , you know , er I think , I , I ca n't quite remember the details but erm |
| 16 | Market takes the Budget in its stride |
| 17 | He takes the mugs to the side of the bed and sits by the feet of his lover . |
| 18 | She said Penketh High School takes the problem of children smoking very seriously . |
| 19 | Finally , Pace takes the Court of Appeal in Tan to task for ignoring developments elsewhere . |
| 20 | We 've implored at public meetings all along that nobody takes the law into their own hands . |
| 21 | It is the Spirit who takes the things of God and reveals them to us ( 1 Cor. 2:12 ) , and Paul can rightly say that the very capacity to respond in faith is a gift of God and no man-made attribute of which we can boast ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 22 | He is indeed , as John Taylor has aptly called him , ‘ the go-between God ’ , for he both takes the things of God and makes them real to us on the one hand , and takes our faint longings and prayers and brings them to the Father on the other . |
| 23 | That 's the day , remember , when he takes the money to Mordecai . |
| 24 | Similarly , in ‘ The Rise in Coals ’ Corvan takes the tune of ‘ The Mistletoe Bough ’ , an early nineteenth-century ‘ gothic ’ ballad mixing melodrama and sentimentality , and puts it to words describing a situation of real emotion for working people : a rise in the price of household coal during the coldest weather of the winter ( Ex. 1.9 ) . |
| 25 | But , most of all , it takes the will of people like you who care about whales and dolphins to make it happen . |
| 26 | The strengths of the approach are clear : it gets away from being content-dominated and takes the teaching of skills seriously , especially skills of stilling , centredness and attentiveness . |
| 27 | An interim inched up by 5 p.c. to 1.45p , payable on June 1 , takes the yield to 2.9 p.c . |
| 28 | Rather , the offer is made by the customer when he takes the goods to the cash desk and it is accepted by the assistant at the cash desk . |
| 29 | If , however , he goes in with the public on that day , conceals himself , and takes the painting on the following day , he is not guilty . |
| 30 | In particular , it takes the HSE to task for not taking the problem of sick building syndrome seriously . |