Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have Midnight lying almost above her head and yet to be incapable of protecting him , or even taking the water he needed , was a kind of torment . |
| 2 | Or maybe to take the morning off to exercise his dog was a rarity ? |
| 3 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 4 | What , what we need to do we 've got a handout for you on this so you can spend more time looking at yourself , or what you need to do is you need to compare your scores against those rather than just take the highest one . |
| 5 | One that gradually took the ice from her veins and relaxed her until she felt as snug as a bug and ready to purr like a kitten . |
| 6 | In the event , however , it was a glossy book from the Town Planning Ministry in 1986 that really took the message to the public — and that message was so remarkable that it deserves examination in some detail . |
| 7 | The short of mountaineer that invariably takes the empty berth next to you on an alpine refuge matrazenlager . |
| 8 | To solve our problem , we have to begin by purging our minds of old attitudes that covertly take the individual organism for granted ; otherwise we shall be begging the question . |
| 9 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 10 | Then some of the younger macaques began paddling in the sea and eventually took the plunge and learned how to swim . |
| 11 | Brenda found out more about it and eventually took the plunge to take it up herself . |
| 12 | But suppose that the creditor accepts the debtor 's old car in satisfaction of a debt of £2,000 , protesting that he would much rather have the cash and eventually taking the car only because there seems to be no hope of anything better . |
| 13 | In his official report , Tim Harrison , deputy inspector of lifeboats for the eastern division , wrote : ‘ Hodge showed great leadership in quickly assessing the danger and courageously taking the lifeboat into heavy breaking seas . |
| 14 | However , in his official report of the incident Mr Tim Harrison , Eastern division deputy inspector of lifeboats , said : ‘ Hodge showed great leadership in quickly assessing the danger and courageously taking the lifeboat into heavy breaking seas . |
| 15 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 16 | My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating . |
| 17 | THE giraffe blinked , bent slowly forward and gingerly took the carrot from my outstretched arm . |
| 18 | Gritting her teeth , she tried to examine the hurt , but Benedict was before her , throwing away the stick and gently taking the dog 's paw in his hands . |
| 19 | Newcastle won six of the 12 relay races and easily took the top club trophy with 220 points . |
| 20 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 21 | Many mentions of mental handicap in the press stem from coverage in other media ( new books , plays , films etc ) and thus take the form of criticism . |
| 22 | The Clacton side of Jim Dove , Gary Ridgeon , Daniel Burrell and Emma Cartwright beat Braintree B 6–3 and thus take the Division Three title . |
| 23 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 24 | Er but we can write these with some f flexibility , and erm there is a deferred income version , where you can run it so you were say you did n't need income five years , you can run it for five years , then la then leave it erm and just take the annuity income as er as , as er regular income . |
| 25 | and just take the boxes . |
| 26 | Baddeley , champion three times in the past , fought grimly and finally took the marathon first game after 24 minutes . |
| 27 | Baddeley , champion three times in the past , fought grimly and finally took the marathon first game after 24 minutes . |
| 28 | Squeeze or spoon the icing inside the outline , starting in the centre and gradually taking the icing out to the piped edging line . |
| 29 | I was never afraid he would hurt me , and calmly took the knife out of my mouth . |
| 30 | He put two earthenware mugs on the table and calmly took the pins from her hair . |