Example sentences of "[verb] take [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 2 | Heseltine has taken to private chats with the backbench malcontents in a last effort to smooth some sort of passage for his proposals , but the word is that there remain a frustrating number of irreconcilables around . |
| 3 | ‘ His performance was amazing , ’ he confessed , ‘ I have never heard anyone who has taken to Welsh so recently master the language so well . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I hear Father Marr has taken to digging pits for the unwary . ’ |
| 5 | The fox has taken to urban life with great success . |
| 6 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 7 | Realistic prices are still hard to find in the land market , according to a would-be farm purchaser whose quests for a viable farm has taken up most of his time and energy for over a year . |
| 8 | Škvoreck ý's; The Bass Saxophone describes the particularly intense form this has taken under totalitarian regimes — both Fascist and Stalinist — when ‘ the ideological guns and sometimes even the police guns of all dictatorships are aimed at the men with the horns ’ . |
| 9 | He has been ‘ governor ’ since 1947 and during this time has taken on most of us as recruits , acting not only as the boss but as adviser of finance , law , education and various other problems . |
| 10 | He has taken against Demian . |
| 11 | Finally , when he has taken in all the information he can assimilate , after a dramatic ‘ I will go ’ or after waking one morning knowing that the problem has solved itself in his sleep , he applies for his visa , resigns his job , packs his bags . |
| 12 | The St Tiggy Winkles Animal Hospital at Haddenham has taken in three of them this month and they 're stumped for an answer . |
| 13 | Its struggle for existence has taken in 20 years of Fascism and six years of wartime occupation . |
| 14 | Before 1989 , dolphin and porpoise hunting in Japan was unregulated , and from 1981 catches rose steadily so that by 1987 over 21,000 animals were reported taken for human consumption , and the following year officially reported numbers had risen again to over 25,000 . |
| 15 | This reflects the expansion of the use of computers from mass storage and number crunching to take in all forms of human communication . |
| 16 | The shot widens to take in another head , on the double bed 's second pillow . |
| 17 | The faculty of medicine at the University of Munich , for instance , has to take on 350 students every half year . |
| 18 | Right anything you want to take off some of these things then ? |
| 19 | The major point which I want to take from this discussion of young people 's situation is that their need to be supported economically by their parents , and more generally their position in structures of reciprocal support within families , to a large extent depend upon factors outside the control of individual families : laws relating to schooling and employment , and the operation of the labour market . |
| 20 | But what if you 're there , trail-blazing in the business world or on track for great success in one of the professions , and suddenly you realise that this path is not the one you want to take after all ? |
| 21 | The roadworks are expected to take between 2 and 3 weeks to complete . |
| 22 | It was worth the risk he 'd taken with these theatrics , just to see them afraid . |
| 23 | after we 'd taken in old Mrs Brent |
| 24 | Even on low ground , the risk of frost is certainly with us from September onwards , and preparations must be made to take in half-hardy plants . |
| 25 | Nowadays these horizons have expanded to take in much of the world outside by virtue of changes in education , in transport and communications , and , as we shall see in the following chapter , by virtue also of changes in the social composition of village community itself . |
| 26 | Instead , the ‘ A ’ international programme has been expanded to take in four matches — against France , Ireland , Spain and Italy . |
| 27 | How long does this process take from initial request through to hand over of the system ? |
| 28 | The separate recordings can then be viewed after the event and decisions about how to edit taken at that point . |
| 29 | Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either . |
| 30 | That is the awful decision which soldiers have had to take on hundreds of occasions . |