Example sentences of "[verb] take [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our tour doctor has had one batch of blood tests on Jones but was unable to make an absolutely positive diagnosis and has taken a second set of tests . ’ |
| 2 | Our tour doctor has had one batch of blood tests on Jones but was unable to make an absolutely positive diagnosis and has taken a second set of tests . ’ |
| 3 | Harry Ramsden 's has taken a third of the equity of a new company , Bluelane , capitalised at £750,000 , which will manage the Hong Kong restaurant and franchise further outlets in the Pacific Rim area . |
| 4 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 5 | In today 's issue of Nature , a team of scientists at the University of Bath and the Natural History Museum has taken the first step to explain why their shapes can be as diverse and striking as those of snowflakes . |
| 6 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 7 | With 100 $500 grants already on their way to scientists working in Russia , the International Science Foundation ( ISF ) has taken the first step towards meeting its goal of helping to preserve research in the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year . |
| 9 | A county council has taken the first step towards a total ban on all fox hunting on council land . |
| 10 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll need to take the second right after those lights , dear . |
| 12 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 13 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 14 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 15 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 16 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 17 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 18 | The Australians just needed three ends to take the third set with a 7-0 whitewash and then confined the New Zealanders to just three singles , one in the fourth set and two in the last , to complete a 1-7 , 7-6 , 7-0 , 7-1 , 7-2 win . |
| 19 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 20 | Well I 'd like to take the second one back , could you reach it in the car ? |
| 21 | I 'd like to take the second one back |
| 22 | He has got to take the next action , it 's up to him now . |
| 23 | Without this they could not communicate with one another , if each claimed to take the first place " . |
| 24 | You 're going to take the second right , just after that pub . ’ |
| 25 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 26 | He closed the door behind him and walked slowly down the corridor until he reached the top of the marble staircase , passing his own office and Pat Muldoon 's without wishing to take a last look . |
| 27 | CSM fears to take the first step that might disrupt its partnership with industry . |
| 28 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 29 | But one will have taken the first step , and the second and the third , towards providing readers with pleasant entertainment . |
| 30 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |