Example sentences of "[conj] take [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laws of Canute of 1020x1022 state : " It is heathen practice if one worships idols , namely if one worships heathen gods and the sun or the moon , fire or flood , wells or stones or any kind of forest trees , or if one practises witchcraft or encompasses death by any means , either by sacrifice or divination , or takes any part in such delusions . " |
| 2 | Well , on top of the expense of maintaining the house and the car , you may want to continue any hobbies you may have or take more holidays . |
| 3 | He asks himself two simple questions ; 1 What is the specific contribution to profit of this resource or expenditure , or in making this decision , or taking this action ? |
| 4 | The court may extend or abridge the time appointed by the rules for doing any act or taking any step in the proceedings either before or after the time has elapsed ( s 376 ) . |
| 5 | You 'd probably benefit from losing a few pounds or taking more exercise . |
| 6 | I feel now that if everybody looked after their own surroundings or took more notice of what 's going on immediately around them , the world might be a better place … ‘ |
| 7 | that 's right , I mean she 's , she 's took some money , or taken some money if , I mean she 'll be home twelve o'clock if it do n't suit her like |
| 8 | Well I mean that is i i something that well to the best off my knowledge , the government has not announced or taken any sort of decision on . |
| 9 | sought orders under section 6(2) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit for the purpose of restoring the investors to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into and under section 61(1) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit or to take such steps as the court might direct for the purpose of remedying the first defendant 's contravention of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 10 | Through the wonders of adoption , Peter Pan has become Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) , a 40-year old wheeler-dealer American lawyer too busy with his mobile phone to turn up at his son 's baseball games or take much heed of his daughter . |
| 11 | Through the wonders of adoption , Peter Pan has become Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) , a 40-year old wheeler-dealer American lawyer too busy with his mobile phone to turn up at his son 's baseball games or take much heed of his daughter . |
| 12 | Dr Anthony Ayles , of the Hermitage Group practice in Edinburgh , is one of several GPs who offer this service but only to patients he considers are at risk from heart disease — those with a close relative who developed coronary problems before 50 , those who smoke , have high blood pressure , are overweight , diabetic or take little exercise . |
| 13 | When you walk around or take any form of exercise , extra heat is produced inside your body , so any activity of this kind , no matter how leisurely , will contribute to keeping you warm . |
| 14 | Now if you have a rolling programme and you wan na say we refurbish four at a time , roughly I would say fifty beds in these two hundred , give or take some money because they vary . |
| 15 | But you may find that sometimes your doctor will explain that a prescription will not help to treat your illness and that the best way for you to get well is to rest , change your diet , drink plenty of fluids , stop smoking , cut down on alcohol or take more exercise . |
| 16 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 17 | Krísuvík is south and slightly west of Reykjavik , reached by a road across a beautiful lava field and through valleys that are almost civilized , or by a fine walk that takes these valleys and continues along a ridge above the bird-filled lake of Kleífarvatn . |
| 18 | Quintin Hailsham told me later : ‘ When I first read the report my hair stood on end , and at my age that takes some doing . ’ |
| 19 | Is it a normal fire tender that takes this pod along ? |
| 20 | Any diet that takes this weight off in a month or two will probably not be successful in the long term . |
| 21 | ( ‘ Might it not be safer and better in future to do business for her openly , for 10% or 15% rather than take such risks and worries which are very trying ? ’ . ) |
| 22 | If possible , give individual care rather than take several people to bed at the same time . |
| 23 | There 's a , the person that took that words was your Moira |
| 24 | That 's where Sonic Youth got a lot of ideas from , because their guitarist Lee Renaldo actually used to play with Glenn Branca and in a way it 's Sonic Youth that took that drone style into pop music . ’ |
| 25 | As an exercise in the skills of understatement and of giving the wrong impression without actually lying , Charles thought that took some beating . |
| 26 | Whew , that took some doing , I can tell you . |
| 27 | I bet that took some setting up when they ? |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it would not be the first inspector 's decision that took some time to see the light of day once it had been referred to a Department . |
| 29 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 30 | He 's not he one that took this warehouse coordinator job ? |