Example sentences of "[adj] take [noun] [det] " in BNC.

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1 All this took place some years ago .
2 All this took place some years ago .
3 If one takes wines such as these together with the inevitably ill-fated attempts to make a red wine from black grapes grown in a climate barely hospitable enough to ripen a grape , let alone colour it , a wealth of curiously coloured , clouded wines must have constituted the norm , despite a half-hidden glint of pink or red in a few instances .
4 He won the 10,000m and 1500m gold medals at the Seoul Paralympics and is due to take part this summer in the Barcelona Games .
5 An operation which he could describe as due to take place some weeks ahead was the second to correct the condition .
6 Further major threats loom in the well-publicised ‘ franchise auction ’ due to take place this Autumn .
7 Their visitor , Father Timothy Browne , was a slightly built intellectual from Staffordshire , who was due to take ship that night on his way to join Dr Allen in Rome .
8 During the subsequent flight the farmer , seated in the rear seat , was obliged to take control several times and particularly during the landing .
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