Example sentences of "but [pers pn] take a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 2 | At the early age of thirty-eight me mother sent me West Get up , said she , and get a job says I I 'll do me best I pulled on my Wellingtons to march to march to Kiljimock But I took a wrong turn at Charlestown and ended up in Knock Once this quiet crossroads was a place of quiet prayer Where Catholics got indulgent once or twice a year You could buy a pair of rosary beads or get your candles blessed If you had a guilty conscience , you could get it off your chest … |
| 3 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 4 | They look quite dull and uninteresting when lying on the beaches around Whitby and Scarborough , but they take a brilliant polish and look wonderful when mounted as jewellery . |
| 5 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 6 | LUCAN left and went to see friends in Sussex , but he took a strange route . |
| 7 | But it takes a supreme act of faith to believe that everything will be ready on time . |
| 8 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |
| 9 | Anyone can be a biological mother , but it takes a professional woman to make a good job of it . |
| 10 | But it takes a mighty age to tell its tale and dives head-first into the soap suds along the way . |
| 11 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 12 | But it takes a different form , chiefly private transactions . |
| 13 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 14 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 15 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 16 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 17 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 18 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 19 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 20 | I got a job eventually , but it took a long time . |
| 21 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 22 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 23 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 24 | Do n't ask me how I kept going for so long , but it took a superhuman effort . |
| 25 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
| 27 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 28 | Gradually , the Services backs began to gel , but it took a fine individual try by Hull to reduce the deficit . |
| 29 | But it took a hard head to be so . |
| 30 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |