Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watches a man arrive who , we discover , has come to take the cure at the local sanatorium . |
| 2 | The EC Environment Commissioner , Ioannis Paleokrassas , has threatened to take the UK government to court over its alleged failure to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment over the planned motorway through Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |
| 3 | ‘ Count de Sciorto has decided to take the wraps off at last , has he ? ’ |
| 4 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 5 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 6 | We are very fortunate that Peggy Spencer has agreed to take the afternoon herself . |
| 7 | He has agreed to take the appointment because his two sons are now grown up . |
| 8 | But these reactions are a later development when anger has begun to take the system over and commandeer all its ways of expressing displeasure . |
| 9 | Indeed the European parliamentary resolution is specific on that point and I believe the boundary commission has failed to take the opportunity to exercise that requirement . |
| 10 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 11 | Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday . |
| 12 | So we 'd got to take the card and show her the Mother , we 'd been . |
| 13 | However , if the Insured intended to take the camera with him when leaving the car but forgot due to momentary inadvertence that would not be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 14 | He has declared himself general co-ordinator of a new Parliament of Popular Power which , although it has no legislative authority , appears destined to take the place of the country 's National Assembly , which was dissolved last month . |
| 15 | Having decided to take the plunge and get yourself ‘ done ’ , there are a number of routs by which a would-be sitter can approach a likely artist . |
| 16 | He would not have dared to take the decision alone to order his troops to open fire on the ANC marchers massing on his borders . |
| 17 | I would have liked to take the Crusades as my special subject , but my inadequacy in Latin deterred me . |
| 18 | She would have liked to take the girl in her arms and hold her for a long time . |
| 19 | Tom thunders , ‘ Who the hell are you ? ’ , and I try to tell him I 'm Albert Fyles and I 've come to take the place of his regular caddie . |
| 20 | Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime , and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors . |
| 21 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |
| 22 | The signing of its charter by representatives of 144 electric utilities with working nuclear power stations was a recognition that the time had come to take the secrecy out of nuclear power and prove that there was a worldwide interest in co-operation and information exchange . |
| 23 | The first discovery she had made on return was that she had forgotten to take the cheesecake out of the freezer . |
| 24 | I do n't trust myself and , apart from Benjamin , I certainly did n't trust anyone else yet I had forgotten to take the key down with me . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've decided to take the initiative ourselves , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 26 | Sitting back on her seat , she relaxed as the engine started and the long , low open canal boat passed under the first of the very low bridges which spanned the narrow waterways , and tuned in her ear to the English commentary being given by the boat 's guide , mentally turning off when it was followed in French and German to engage in a desultory conversation with a fellow countryman who had chanced to take the place beside her , a pleasant young man attending his first seminar in Denmark . |
| 27 | ‘ How long does it take a conifer to grow to a size where it can be used ? ’ she asked hastily , since her last remark had threatened to take the discussion off course . |
| 28 | Pc Court had threatened to take the force to an industrial tribunal last year alleging sexual discrimination in a case supported by the Police Federation , but Mr Newing agreed she had been disadvantaged after the arbitration service ACAS was brought in . |
| 29 | Because of problems in finding a theatre in the West End , Henry Sherek had decided to take The Cocktail Party to New York rather than to London ; this was a calculated gamble on Eliot 's fame — to see , as it were , if the Nobel Prize would run on Broadway . |
| 30 | But as Kerry bade her goodnight Lisa had decided to take the sketches home and finish them there . |