Example sentences of "and [adv] take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 2 | We are anxious to have a small group of people who would be willing to look after the altar in the church , prepare it for special occasions and generally take a personal interest in its care . |
| 3 | see instead of doing the one I 'm doing and just taking a little bit of money , I could go and start up another one |
| 4 | Baptized on 31 August 1673 , the younger Daniel Coxe emigrated to America at the age of twenty-eight and thereafter took a prominent role in the affairs of West New Jersey . |
| 5 | From 1387 onwards he supervised the carpentry of Winchester College , though his home was in Upchurch in Kent when in 1390 , with his wife Joan , he bought large property in Kingston upon Thames , and also took a sixty-year lease of the Bishop 's Hall there from 18 October 1392 . |
| 6 | But true to the political contours of Lebanon and what is now Israel , I had to fly to Greece , then to Tel Aviv and then take a four-hour car journey to see it , a round-trip of almost a thousand miles . |
| 7 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 8 | The ecumenical movement has reversed three centuries of division which began with the failure of the Savoy Conference in 1661 and the imposition of the Act of Uniformity , Today , Holy Communion is celebrated more frequently and with a set liturgy , often in an ‘ Anglican ’ way ; set prayers are common and sometimes take a responsory form ; the increasing use of a lectionary means that the choice of readings depends less upon the whim of the preacher and more upon an ordered scheme . |
| 9 | When a company evolves to Stage 4 it ceases to view geographical units as necessarily important in marketing terms and instead takes a global view of its marketing , financing and operations . |
| 10 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 11 | I know of a very nice hotel in Seabourne where we can enjoy a fabulous meal and afterwards take a romantic stroll by the sea in the moonlight . ’ |