Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Given there are some 100,000 climbers in the UK and only 100 or so took part , I ca n't help but think that a tremendous message of indifference . |
| 2 | For a start only about thirty or so take part , since it is organised in four-ball teams , with one professional , a celebrity who is normally from sport or show business , and two amateurs . |
| 3 | Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase . |
| 4 | Darlington Harriers are arranging a 10km fund raising fun run for August 30 , starting at 11am on High Row you must be 17 or over to take part . |
| 5 | Though almost certainly more tolerant than the norms observed by the police in deciding whether or not to take action against speeding motorists , these norms are somewhat less tolerant than those observed by some staff in areas of greater industrialization , as the following conversation with a field officer from such an area suggests : |
| 6 | ‘ With many people 's desires to move being delayed or not taking place because of job and housing difficulties there may well be demands to make cities more acceptable or even attractive places to live , ’ said Miss Hughes . |
| 7 | ‘ We can see in the American financial world where you end up when risks are underestimated , or not taken account of quickly enough in the results . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We want as many Mini owners as possible to join the convoy , come for the weekend or just take part in the tour that Sunday . ’ |
| 9 | Or just taking part by coming . |
| 10 | Between 1962 and 1976 breeding was established , or probably took place , regularly in 17 areas holding between 20 and 25 pairs . |
| 11 | For example , it was alleged that one of the banks ‘ would not knowingly or recklessly take steps such as to prejudice the business plan ’ . |
| 12 | Felicity could not easily attend the lunch as her status was indeterminate ; and she had no wish ‘ to break bread , or even to take wine ’ with the Party 's local professionals . |
| 13 | Watch makers were forced at one time to accept either bread tickets or else take payment in cheap watches which they could sell only at a loss . |
| 14 | It was not hype or cleverly taken pictures designed for ‘ sophisticated ’ audiences , sated daily by instant coverage of war and disaster ; the problem is real enough — and in real terms , it very nearly defies description . |
| 15 | And it was Mrs Crumwallis who ran up the stairs and incompetently took charge . |
| 16 | Halfling refugees poured down the river Aver in a convoy of boats , barges , and improvised rafts , and eventually took refuge in Nuln . |
| 17 | In the presidential elections held on Feb. 2 , 1986 [ see p. 34350 ] , Oscar Arias Sánchez of the social democratic National Liberation Party ( Partido de Liberación Nacional — PLN ) won 52.3 per cent of the vote and duly took office on May 8 . |
| 18 | A ten-minute video , called Fur : The Bloody Choice , featuring grotesque and secretly taken footage , is designed to shock people into action . |
| 19 | Social workers operate in teams , take measured approaches to problems , and rarely take decisions on their own . |
| 20 | And so to take examples among longer poems a new kind of satire , Dryden 's Absalom and Achitophel , is in fact a mock-epic , attacking and yet leaning for support upon Milton 's Paradise Lost ; even the extremely violent novelty of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land reminds us of a Renaissance or Arthurian version of its text , which is rarely present on the surface but against which the poem reverberates and resounds most deeply . |
| 21 | Open our eyes to see Your glory , open our hearts to receive Your love , open our minds to discern Your purposes , quicken our feet to go for You , loosen our tongues to speak for You , open our hands to give for You , and so take care of us Your people who embrace the cross of Your son and desire to move forward in faith in the power of Your Spirit and to the glory of Your name ; |
| 22 | Her new owner was prepared for some difficulty , and so took Anna to a good professional horsebreaker ; but to no avail . |
| 23 | Robyn arrived at Luke 's later than she had expected — far later — flustered and hot from busy traffic and wrongly taken turns , tense as the prospect of seeing Luke again became reality . |
| 24 | In addition to this , he thought it might be possible to work with a sympathetic artist in a good studio , and perhaps take lessons at an academy . |
| 25 | ‘ And perhaps took poison there , ’ said Auguste eagerly . |
| 26 | It 's not a thrilling task but is easy and only takes minutes . |
| 27 | He still drank , began to smoke , and only took notice of his wife and child to shout at them or hit them , usually when he was drunk . |
| 28 | In the same year the British abandoned Palestine , never a welcome responsibility and lately become ungovernable , and henceforth took care of their Middle Eastern interests through a group of client states and the fortress colony of Aden . |
| 29 | I am very , very relieved and obviously taking advice on the next steps because naturally I am not going to leave it at this . ’ |
| 30 | Before people could generally read , learning was by word of mouth and much took place in the countryside along the paths , particular truths being imparted at certain places , which thereby took on special significance . |