Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 2 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 3 | In the subsequent scramble for survival and enrichment which mounted towards the end of 1922 , it was not surprising that those who were slightly better off often took a kind of revenge in driving hard bargains with their poorer neighbours , as has been noted earlier . |
| 4 | So so please please take take it seriously on that . |
| 5 | Every so often , rational pursuits need to be ‘ seen through ’ ; and their practices and concepts , which all too easily take on the form of rituals , need to be demystified . |
| 6 | You 've all of you , there 's no denying it , you 've all too often taken advantage of Eleanor , and so it 's only right and proper now you should respect the fact she has a life of her own . ’ |
| 7 | For just a few seconds , Lucinda hesitated ; for just long enough to take in the shock of white hair , the lined , weather-worn face and the tremendous size of him . |
| 8 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 9 | They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened . |
| 10 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 11 | This volume was thus very largely taken up with an exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity , not as a second-order theological construction , but as sketching the basis within God himself of the possibility and actuality of his making of himself known to us in jesus Christ . |
| 12 | Yet still not enough takes place nationally or internationally ( where there is an additional danger of conferences being high on rhetoric , low in practicalities ) . |
| 13 | Oh yes er a local people coming home always like to take farmhouse cheese away and Orkney people go on away on holiday again like to take ones off to their friends and relatives in the south too . |
| 14 | I wait to see how long you can control your imbecile temptation to violate my copyrights on this letter and once again untruthfully take words and phrases from it to show your ‘ powers ’ to match those boasted by your kind in the NF and the BNP , whose performances are different from yours only in that instead of using your limbs to physically assault us like they would , you have acted by wearing the ‘ civilised ’ guise of being the ‘ editor ’ of the ‘ left ’ NewSS , and have written to assail my integrity , my capacity to think , my freedom to defend and speak for my constitutionally organised members at the Stratford school . |
| 15 | Yet , when the oriental came at him , the man moved so swiftly that he was once again almost taken by surprise . |
| 16 | He stayed for five years — photographing cars and production lines — before being dismissed for habitual lateness ( he had dallied once too often taking pictures on the way to work ) . |
| 17 | Probably better just to take them home , and look at them rather than compile them now . |
| 18 | Fabia exclaimed , instantly very much taken with the idea . |
| 19 | It costs £74,000 to put the 348 GT on the road and nearly as much again to take it to Le Mans . |
| 20 | ‘ Freedom from party control , as distinct from party commitment , is now so much taken for granted that it requires no affirmation . ’ |
| 21 | What is even more remarkable against this background is that modern science has now not only taken an interest in the mystical art of the Zodiac , but is actually trying to prove that a person 's stars do have an effect . |
| 22 | And Leicester understandably though not legally taking their time there . |
| 23 | It was the culmination of that mystique of rule which had first flowered in the Punjab under John and Henry Lawrence fifty years before , and whose objective basis in reality was now almost universally taken for granted . |
| 24 | Many of the important decisions affecting village life are now no longer taken locally , but by inaccessible and apparently impenetrable bureaucracies which , however well-intentioned , can not be sensitive to local problems and idiosyncrasies . |
| 25 | That is em if nothing happens , if the survivor , if the person being abused does n't do anything , then the abuse carries on and the abuser y'know continues to regularly perform this these acts of abuse , whatever they might be , and erm stopping it is something that er usually involves the , in inverted commas , victim , taking control of the situ well no no well not exactly taking control but trying to do something about it er making more fuss about it to other people , moving out of the house , as sometimes happens when people are adolescents . |
| 26 | For there is indeed an observable general tendency ( however deeply complicated by historical and cultural diversity ) to distinguish and to value kinds of work which meet no immediate and manifest need , of an everyday practical kind , and which are at least not necessarily taken as evidence of some metaphysical or non-human dimension of reality . |
| 27 | Peter 's father complained to the head teacher , who quite surprisingly immediately took the parent 's side . |
| 28 | In short , theology is no longer simply taken for granted or even accepted by society at large . |
| 29 | For the rest of the short journey she sat beside him uneasily , no longer so taken with her surroundings . |
| 30 | Dewi had wanted her to be independent , to fend for herself when he was no longer there to take care of her , but he could not have known that his death would have come so suddenly , striking him down in the prime of his manhood . |