Example sentences of "[verb] take [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London-based Elonex Plc has taken its first step into the higher-end workstation market . |
| 2 | Gloucestershire fast bowler Courtney Walsh has taken his fiftieth wicket of the season . |
| 3 | He has taken his first steps and is eating and drinking well . |
| 4 | JOE MONTANA has taken his first steps towards an NFL comeback — by imitating Randall Cunningham . |
| 5 | Finally , the television presenter Leslie Crowther has taken his first steps since being injured in a road accident . |
| 6 | But as we travelled down a lovely wooded valley towards the north coast at Alta , the sun appeared below the clouds near midnight and we stopped to take our first pictures of the midnight sun . |
| 7 | After she 'd taken her first sip , she said : ‘ Play it — go ahead , ’ and sat on the bed to listen where she would n't have to meet his eye . |
| 8 | After a switch to real race machinery , Bradl soon became known as a daring , go-for-broke rider and by 1987 he 'd taken his first European championship win and second overall in the series . |
| 9 | From its position in the capital ( then considered the Second City of the Empire ) and from the sheer size of the market , coupled with the technological advances of the steam age , Guinness was , by 1800 , well positioned to take its first tentative step onto the world stage . |
| 10 | The party clearly intends to take its next populist stand on the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India ( of whom , after 20 years , there may now be more than 10m ) . |
| 11 | Anyway , that took a year or two and I even remember taking my next brother to school , me mother saying Take Frank to school and tell Miss , he 's your brother and he 's five . |
| 12 | FURTHER Flight looks all set to take his second successive Doncaster Cup tomorrow . |
| 13 | But he has travelled 5000 miles to Edinburgh for expert help and is now all set to take his first faltering steps at the age of five . |
| 14 | HAVING taken your first steps on the road to becoming a video movie maker , you can now begin to run a little . |
| 15 | Death had brushed Dustin 's cheek twice , threatening to take him first by fire and secondly by a bomb . |
| 16 | It was during the Germania period that Nietzsche 's inclination toward ancient Greece seems to have taken its first definite shape , although his distaste for specialization remained . |
| 17 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 18 | She had taken her last look at this obscure outpost of the Soviet Union and now stood with her back to the low sun . |
| 19 | It was not till 14 August 1779 that the little five-ship force led by the self-styled ‘ Commander-in-Chief of the American squadron now in Europe ’ finally left Brest , but by the 21st it had taken its first prize and others rapidly followed . |
| 20 | He had taken his first steps forward in English politics by denouncing the emphasis on German politics ; he was able to shift to a position the King found acceptable by adopting the policy he later described by saying ‘ America was conquered in Germany ’ , and this approach suited Britain 's position very well . |
| 21 | It was the day I had taken my last exam in my finals so I was on a high anyway . |
| 22 | He paused to take his first mouthful of fish . |