Example sentences of "[noun] take [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 2 | Vanne took the first boat trip across Lake Tanganyika to Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve with Jane in 1960 , when the authorities refused to give a 20-year-old girl permission to set up camp on her own . |
| 3 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |
| 4 | Captain Bligh of the Bounty took the first apples to Australia ; Jan van Riebeeck , the founder of Cape Settlement , took them to South Africa and the Pilgrim Fathers who boarded the Mayflower carried them to America . |
| 5 | Dundalk clinched the double with victory over Derry in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and the following season the Brandywell club took the first step towards a unique treble with a stunning 4–0 win in the League Cup final at Oriel Park . |
| 6 | Waggler and caster fished alongside the weed bed tempted tench skimmers and roach , but as Darlington rods took the next three places , Bob 's best efforts failed to secure the team victory . |
| 7 | On reaching Farmoor take the second left into Meadow Close . |
| 8 | A special menu is offered for children , a nd some bedrooms take a fourth bed . |
| 9 | All bedrooms take a third and fourth bed . |
| 10 | Some bedrooms take a third bed . |
| 11 | The second machine takes a second look at the beans which pass the first scan using ultraviolet light . |
| 12 | Macedonia , which in January took the first steps towards independence [ see p. 38704 ] , faced hostility from Greece which felt that its name implied a territorial claim on the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 13 | Gloucestershire trainer Chris Broad saddled the first winner … and Wantage jockey Graham McCourt took the second race … |
| 14 | In 1882 the Legislature took the first of these courses . |
| 15 | But Mr Gould took the sixth out of seven constituency places . |
| 16 | Lorton told Tolby to take the next left turn . |
| 17 | He three-putted four times in the first six holes and on the inward run twice fluffed chips to take a third 6 at the thirteenth . |
| 18 | Then I switched off the music centre and strolled over to the window to take a last look at the night outside . |
| 19 | Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge . |
| 20 | Matilda took the second slice and started eating it slowly . |
| 21 | Mushtaq took the last two wickets to finish England off for 255 , the 10 having fallen for 132 in 45 overs . |
| 22 | Does he recall that he said that if the business community took the first step he and the police would give it whatever support and back-up it needed ? |
| 23 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 24 | Villa away … the premier league team took the first leg 2-1 at the Manor … |
| 25 | GUIL takes a third coin , spins , it , catches it in his right hand , turns it over on to his left wrist , lobs it in the air , catches it with his left hand , raises his left leg , throws the coin up and under it , catches it and turns it over on to the top of his head , where it sits . |
| 26 | Lau took the first 21–18 , and Piercey the second 22–20 . |
| 27 | They did have the consolation of a team medal , however , and only Sudbury 's Steve Jones prevented RTE taking a first five clean sweep . |
| 28 | The world champion took the third frame , but with Wattana winning the fourth everything at this point suggested a tense final . |
| 29 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 30 | Bryant , now in the twilight of an incredible career , recovered after dropping the opening set against Australia 's Dennis Katunarich to take the second and third sets . |