Example sentences of "take [pers pn] as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 2 | He would take it as a personal affront . |
| 3 | ‘ I can show you an excellent view of the town , ’ he pressed , his smile dipping for all the world as if he would take it as a personal tragedy if she refused . |
| 4 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 5 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 6 | ‘ Good , ’ Belinda nodded , taking it as a polite enquiry that did n't require a detailed response . |
| 7 | I told Michael Quirke how a heron had once nearly landed on my back in Wales , and he was mightily impressed , taking it as a good luck omen . |
| 8 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
| 9 | Some took it as a great laugh ; others as a brave attempt to champion a little-known music ; and others just hated it . |
| 10 | He took it as a personal insult . |
| 11 | He took it as a personal reproach . |
| 12 | Foolishly , I took it as a good sign . |
| 13 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 14 | But its opposition to traditional psychological accounts of socialization , and its articulation , against white feminism , of a specific and positive role for the Afro-American family , leads it to be cited by many feminist psychologists , and the first edition of Williams 's ( 1979 ) Psychology of Women reader took it as the sole representative of psychological work about black women in the overdeveloped world . |
| 15 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 16 | Surely she had taken it as an ill omen ? |
| 17 | Take them as a sea-level baseline . |
| 18 | ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen . |
| 19 | So next time someone copies what you are wearing , or wants to know how you got into shape — take it as a real compliment . |
| 20 | Or C , take it as a real compliment and you are on the same wavelength ? |
| 21 | It is therefore a matter which lies within my discretion as to whether or not I take it as a late objection . |
| 22 | So as the Moon beams down on you this Christmas take it as an extraterrestrial greeting for a happy 1983 ! |
| 23 | ‘ Take it as an infallible maxim ’ , he wrote to his son , ‘ that as the Church can never flourish without the protection of the Crown , so the dependency of the Church is the chiefest support of regal authority . ’ |
| 24 | All right , ’ she said obediently , deciding to take it as a professional instruction . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 26 | The ancient servitor , who drove with a slack rein and a sublime disregard of the pot-holes , seemed to take it as a personal affront that Miss Kyte had kept him waiting for more than two hours . |