Example sentences of "take [adv] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well , then , I , that really takes away my short term concern then |
| 2 | As a condition of booking you must either take out our special holiday insurance arranged through the Eagle Star Group or arrange a policy yourself providing comparable or greater cover under all sections . |
| 3 | We will take forward our public appointments initiative . |
| 4 | When Charlton took on his last club job at Newcastle , midfielder John Trewick asked about one-twos , which had been encouraged by former boss Arthur Cox . |
| 5 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 6 | They came on the Friday and we signed the damned papers , did n't we , and they took away my social security book . |
| 7 | She took off her thick walking boots and hid them behind a tree , changing into her pretty shoes . |
| 8 | Then I took off my little gold earrings and felt in the folds of my dress for all the money I 'd saved or stolen from my brother 's pockets over the years , and placed both the money and earrings in the palm of her hand , forcing her fingers shut around them . |
| 9 | Next to him stood Comrade Clementis , who took off his own fur cap and set it on Gottwald 's bare head . |
| 10 | Father Devlin boomed , taking off his tall silk hat as he strode into the wide , big , lamp-lit kitchen of the O'Malley farmhouse . |
| 11 | ‘ have been taking off your white ankle socks |
| 12 | AUSTRALIA 'S reserve wicketkeeper Tim Zoehrer put away his pads at Edgbaston yesterday and took up his occasional job leg spin bowling . |
| 13 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 14 | She took out her warmed mince pies and put them on a tray . |
| 15 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 16 | He took out his Italian phrase book and studied it fiercely , learning nothing . |
| 17 | Last night , Johanna 's father broke down as he revealed his daughter had mysteriously taken down her 50 Christmas cards from her bedroom wall only hours before disappearing . |
| 18 | Buddie had taken out his little silver tin and was in the process of rolling one of those thin straggly cigarettes that flared when lit and vanished after only a few puffs . |
| 19 | York take on their arch rivals Harrogate at Clifton Park today and Pickering entertain Scarborough in the East Yorkshire Cup . |
| 20 | ‘ I also like to take along my new Fender Twin , which is a ‘ 65 reissue . |
| 21 | In 1932 the government sent commissioners into Rotherham and Durham councils to take over their public assistance committees when they refused to operate the means test as rigorously as the centre wished . |
| 22 | President , this was supplemented by the Secretary of State , for Health in May , last month , by golden Virginia Bottomley , that further offered an invitation to the private sector to form a partnership with the government to take over our public sector N H S , to provide the flair and the entrepreneurial skills and imagination of the private sector of British industry . |
| 23 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 24 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 25 | The new Prime Minister and Finance Minister , Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller , a former Agriculture Minister , resigned from the conservative Popular Action party ( AP ) in order to take up his new government role . |
| 26 | I was soon to take up my first teaching post in a Secondary School and he had called to ask if I were able to make use of a potter 's wheel which he could provide for the new Art room . |
| 27 | He 'd seen her buy the cards and stamps and go through the list of presents to get , seen her write letters to elderly relatives , make the puddings and the mince pies , clean the house , polish the little pieces of silver and brass she 'd acquired , make long shopping lists and then go out and buy things , wrap presents and take out their old Christmas tree and sort through the ornaments . |