Example sentences of "[be] take [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you , you , you 're taking landlords farm assets , but you 're not taking their industrial , commercial or urban assets at all . |
| 2 | I 'm taking Friday week off . |
| 3 | A club servant might be taking Moscow gold so perhaps one should not share secrets with them and so might another club member — but since he is likely to be a government official as well you already have a far bigger problem than just his being a member of your club . |
| 4 | Thought he must be taking Lorraine home this time of night . |
| 5 | He would be taking Christmas communion to the sick . |
| 6 | This could be taking fatherley pride a bit too far . |
| 7 | Progressive organisations are taking stress management education available to all their staff . |
| 8 | Despite the prohibitions , even public employees are taking strike action , including members of the Ministry of Agriculture , Public Works and the Social Security Institute and have received wide support from other sectors . |
| 9 | For the last three years Bowler , 32 , had been taking anti-depressant medication as a result of her husband 's treatment of her . |
| 10 | Both had been taking fluticasone propionate during the trial , but the investigators considered the deaths were caused by disease activity rather than the treatment received . |
| 11 | Only when these key steps have been taken will government and individuals alike be able to plan for the long term , instead of focusing on the short term and the next election . |
| 12 | The agency girls were taking expert care of him . |
| 13 | As we have seen , in terms of student numbers , most activity in agricultural education is on a part-time basis ; in November 1979 , for example , almost 15,000 students were taking day release courses . |
| 14 | But within two months of the Convention dramatic political events were taking peace politics into the heart of the labour ‘ machine ’ itself . |
| 15 | A review of the notes of our cancer patients suggests that virtually none of the cancer patients were taking disease suppressant drugs , such as salazopyrin , regularly or at all . |
| 16 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 17 | H 2 receptor blockers and Gaviscon were the only acid suppressing agents taken by this group of patients and no patients were taking proton pump blockers . |
| 18 | Charles and Diana were to take centre stage in the drama . |
| 19 | Clerical staff in Oxford 's hospitals are to take strike action in support of their campaign for better pay . |
| 20 | We can restate Saussure 's argument by saying that he is taking colour terminology as paradigmatic for all language ; just as colour terms impose arbitrary divisions on the continuous spectrum of light waves , so all other words impose arbitrary divisions on the ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ which , without language , would constitute our mental experience . |
| 21 | A bank is taking court action over the former Tory Party chairman 's half a million pound overdraft . |
| 22 | More broadly even than that , for the first time since the 1930s finance is taking centre stage in debates about economic policy , industrial competitiveness and even relative political power . |
| 23 | ‘ What a massacre of innocence of youth is taking place hour by hour ! ’ he harangued his audience . |
| 24 | This gentrification is taking place cheek by jowl with large public-housing projects , exactly the kind of urban renewal that pessimists thought American cities would never again be able to manage . |
| 25 | Joanna Kemp , also at Luton , is taking A-level music and English , and AS-level courses in psychology , music and drama , not because she knows what she wants to do , but because she does n't . |
| 26 | Now he says he 's taking court action for compensation . |
| 27 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 28 | ‘ What we do to show due diligence is to take core food temperatures three times a day and record them in a log , ’ says the Dome 's catering manager , Michael Huntingdon MHCIMA . |
| 29 | So although he was able to boast that his own Comet ( which , with Woolies , B&Q and Superdrug , makes the four retailing legs of the Kingfisher group ) was taking market share from other national chains , its share of the total electrical market was actually falling . |
| 30 | Skyways , set in and around an international airport , may well have been ‘ pretty dreadful ’ but it did bring Kylie into contact with a promising young actor who years later was to take centre stage in her life . |