Example sentences of "[noun prp] take an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jerry Rawson takes an excursion round some of his favourite hills — isolated gems with a character all their own |
| 2 | Cotton took an appointment as golf director at Royal Waterloo Golf Club , telling his friends that he was testing the theory that absence really did make the heart grow fonder . |
| 3 | Sylvie took an apple from her pocket . |
| 4 | Over the centuries the best Italian architects , Solari , Amadeo , Pelligrino Tibaldi ( known as Il Pellegrini ) and Richini , worked on the building , although the façade was actually finished by Carlo Amati , the final stage being completed after many years of inactivity , and only after Napoleon took an interest in the building . |
| 5 | In July the Earls of Northampton , Oxford , Pembroke and Devon together with Sir Hugh Despenser , Sir Richard Talbot and Sir Richard Stafford took an army to the duchy and put Charles of Blois to flight at the battle of Morlaix on 30 September , while in October the king himself embarked for Brittany , aware that part of the duchy had already been regained for the Montfort cause . |
| 6 | Railway : The train to Salzburg takes an hour and a half and costs approx AS 270 ; alternatively Innsbruck takes two hours and costs approx AS 370 . |
| 7 | The Life of Edward the Confessor , written some fifty years later , claims that when she was pregnant with him all the men of England took an oath to accept the child as king should it be a boy , while the Norman Inuentio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni of c.1053-4 alleges that he was anointed and consecrated king as a boy . |
| 8 | Even so , with water in normal supply , locking at Foxton takes an hour or more ; slow working was always something of a disadvantage . |
| 9 | Graham took an envelope from his pocket and tossed it onto the sofa . |
| 10 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 11 | Mike took an evening job with his brother , cleaning in a nearby shopping centre . |
| 12 | When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield . |
| 13 | Peter Scantlebury took an age to find his range . |
| 14 | In 1369 , for instance , John of Gaunt took an army from Calais to Harfleur , and devastated the Pays de Caux , while in the following year Sir Robert Knolles led an army from Calais which did much damage in the Ile-de-France ; but Charles V refused to give battle and neither chevauchée achieved anything . |
| 15 | The concluding chapter by Roy Parker takes an overview of child care research , identifying and developing a number of themes which have echoes elsewhere in the book . |
| 16 | Kuhlmann took an envelope from his breast pocket , gave it to Newman . |
| 17 | Presumably Blunden took an interest in Leapor as a result of his research into John Clare . |
| 18 | At first Joshua took an interest in their route , peering into the gathering darkness in an attempt to identify some landmark . |
| 19 | TARTAN TERROR TONY THORNTON 'S wife Carole took an instant liking to his new tartan kilt yesterday . |
| 20 | Max Harlow had given-up his management responsibilities when Intercontinent took an interest , returning to his teaching duties . |
| 21 | Certainly , Dundela took an eternity to produce anything like their best form . |
| 22 | They were given a meal , and Hess took an hour 's sleep . |
| 23 | They were only one of many small groups Nguyen Seth took an interest in , but Duroc knew the Elder saw Paris as an important flashpoint in the coming deluge and so they required more personal attention than similar factions in Johannesburg , Puerto Belgrano , Teheran , Shanghai , Mexico City , Malmo , Berlin , Belfast , Genoa or Birmingham . |
| 24 | Sergeant Evans took an aspirin with a cup of office coffee and reflected that the Chief Superintendent was probably reading his Essex dossier now . |
| 25 | Fiona and Lachy took an end of Fergus each ; Lachy held him under the shoulders , Fiona by the ankles . |
| 26 | In the mid 1940s Battelle took an interest in developing the process further , and at a later date it was exploited through the Haloid Corporation after a research person had read about the technology in a journal . |