Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] take the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were at the park I took the down there cos |
| 2 | Sometimes during the mate 's watch I took the wheel and learnt to steer . |
| 3 | At TAC we take the services we offer architectural specifiers very seriously indeed , because we know that supplying the best products is not in itself enough . |
| 4 | It 's no good him taking the bridge down out now , because he ca n't put the wall ca n't really re-brick there now much too wet ! |
| 5 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 6 | From Inchnadamph you take the A837 for 6.5 miles to Tunmore ( a single house ) . |
| 7 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 8 | In the split second it took the cursing Jube to work the action and fire , his target was no longer there . |
| 9 | But as the painting was not yet dry he kept it in his room , and when a buyer came unexpectedly to see Modigliani and offered him ten francs for her portrait he took the money . |
| 10 | Faced with that counter-attack , Murray stubbornly refused repeated appeals to simply say under which Law he took the unprecedented action . |
| 11 | From the heap of clothing he took the girl 's blue jeans , grumbling , ‘ After that downpour last night … ’ |
| 12 | On home-baked brown bread it takes the place of butter . |
| 13 | It is said that when Christie moved into the new mill he took the machinery with him and this must have included the scribbler and carder. with the " Devondale " piercing machine , the slubbing Billy and spinning Jennys . |
| 14 | Her first detective novel , The Man in the Queue , a highly accomplished piece of a work for a novice hand , was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot — the name by which she preferred to be known , in both public and private — though for her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey . |
| 15 | It 's a good job I took the dog out this morning cos it ai n't fit to take a dog out . |
| 16 | From the moment you take the big glass off my hands you will have the sole responsibility for it . |
| 17 | When Zoser dabbed a little on his wife 's sleeve she took the sleeve and held it up to her nose . |
| 18 | In her living room she took the bundle of replies to her ad in the New Statesman , settled at her desk and wrote to Michael who was an architect and described himself as outgoing . |
| 19 | After a moment he took the belt . |
| 20 | Instead , when budgetary reform took place it took the form of a three tier decision making unit . |
| 21 | When we come to deal with infant baptism we take the view that the failure of parents to measure up to certain standards is to be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for their children . |
| 22 | The next day I took the first bus back to New York . |
| 23 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 24 | One day I took the opportunity of asking Mrs Fairfax a few questions about Mr Rochester , as I was curious about him , and the little housekeeper seemed happy to talk . |
| 25 | One day I took the beasts hunting and they raised a big fat buck . |
| 26 | Wednesday night I take the tablets . |
| 27 | At midnight I took the decision to risk it . |
| 28 | From the other she took the photograph — now with the glass cracked — of Tatyana and Zbigniew Nowak on Westminster Bridge . |
| 29 | The next day she took the plane back to Oklahoma . |
| 30 | Travelling by night she took the form of a mortal nurse , the better to prey on children and suck their blood . |