Example sentences of "[verb] take [art] big [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are 72 horses at Manton this year , and Luciano Gaucci has taken a big interest in the yard since acquiring Dr Devious last autumn . |
| 2 | In lead : President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has taken a big lead in Iran 's presidential election , winning nearly 70% of the votes counted , according to the first partial results issued by the interior ministry today . |
| 3 | By taking over Thames , the firm has taken a big step towards becoming a powerhouse in British television . |
| 4 | But in his absence no-one was capable of providing it and that must be hugely worrying for Wilkinson , who has taken the biggest gamble of his successful career by selling the striker . |
| 5 | or someone has to take a , a bi a co company has to take a big lot off . |
| 6 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 7 | The Stacker device driver is pretty big — 40Kb — and unless this can be loaded high , it 's going to take a big chunk of Conventional memory . |
| 8 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 9 | A nice piece of work ; but bear in mind that a much more ambitious measurement , which would have taken the biggest chunk of the Hubble 's observing time , is completely beyond the telescope 's present capacity , because it involves seeing faint variable stars in far-off galaxies . |
| 10 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 11 | Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win . |
| 12 | Big industry will have to take a bigger share of the professional clubs . |
| 13 | It was cold but not too cold , and dammit , I had caught four fish with hardly any effort ; fish that had taken a big crust with a savage bite that suggested they were very hungry . |
| 14 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 15 | I had taken the Big C to Agincourt . |
| 16 | David , 38 , with his brother Andy and fishing partners Kev Berry and Robin Clark have spent dozens of hours trying to take a big predator from the water . |
| 17 | Mm oh he 's taken a big chunk of the grass . |