Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone takes five copies out of Sarajevo where it is faxed through to Geneva , phoned to Zagreb where it can be relayed by fax to London and it is also printed in Tuzla and Zenica . ’ |
| 2 | I asked no way could I take two years out again and that was it . |
| 3 | Where can I take these awards ? |
| 4 | What do I do , shall I take those bits off there ? |
| 5 | Christian Aid has agreed to my taking three months ' unpaid leave , and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth has kindly awarded me a bursary to cover costs of travel . |
| 6 | When I left I took all medicines down here you know . |
| 7 | I am sure I took great pains with you , alas , but to very little purpose . |
| 8 | Anyway , I took four samples of the drinking water which I will take to the races this evening . ’ |
| 9 | I took countless calls from people seeking tickets up until then . ’ |
| 10 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 11 | Right , when I went to Turkey , I had three jabs before I went away and every two days I took two tablets . |
| 12 | ‘ I took two pills that evening — they 've never affected me like that before . ’ |
| 13 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 14 | Cos I think he 's sort of realized now that nobody 's particularly impressed by him taking six grammes and twelve Es at once and going oh I took six grammes of and twelve Es at once and I was really fucked . |
| 15 | and it takes you back right what else did I take I took nine things |
| 16 | I took deep breaths and felt for my moneybelt and the stiffness of traveller 's cheques secreted about me . |
| 17 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 18 | Zampolli summed up the curiously optimistic mood the industry found itself in , post-war , at Geneva : ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ during the war I took three orders for the car . |
| 19 | I won the race , I took three points from McLaren and from Ayrton Senna . ’ |
| 20 | The beast did n't appear to have seen me and I took several photographs . |
| 21 | I took some clothes and tools , and also a box of Spanish gold and silver money . |
| 22 | I took some photographs ; then , tired and happy , lay on the mound and watched some large , white clouds with grey bellies drift like giant manta rays through the swirling air . |
| 23 | Cos I took some photographs of Sammy , he got a picture of Sammy in there , picture of Nat . |
| 24 | I took some measures through the Arts Council to help the cash flows of some of the institutions that were threatened by the delays in that funding . |
| 25 | I took some tapes with me to Saint-Moritz and listened , and thought , my goodness , this is quite wrong . |
| 26 | I took some pills . ’ |
| 27 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 28 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 29 | I took these definitions from the dictionaries I happened to have in my house when I was writing this . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ It 's no answer to say ‘ I took those steps only to save the patient from dreadful suffering ’ . |