Example sentences of "[pron] take a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman referred to another issue in which I take a good deal of interest — women and work . |
| 2 | ( ’ Each time I take a good picture , I ask myself who can I show it to … but there are fewer people left . ’ ) |
| 3 | Sentencing , Sheriff Gordon Shiach told David Frame : ‘ I take a serious view of these offences . ’ |
| 4 | I take a political position according to my belief in the particular issue , and it never coincides in respect of more than one issue with that of any particular party . |
| 5 | You must understand , however , that I take a great interest in poor Hyde . |
| 6 | 1650 hours — I take a final walk round . |
| 7 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 8 | I take a deep breath and head back into the eye of the storm , careening down side-streets when police barricades and fire hoses block the main avenues . |
| 9 | I take a deep breath , trying to wake myself up . |
| 10 | I take a deep breath , trying to control things . |
| 11 | I take a deep breath . |
| 12 | I take a deep breath . |
| 13 | I take a deep breath and try to calm myself , to still the noisy , rusty jagged parts . |
| 14 | I take a deep breath , ‘ I said I could probably write a story about my own death . ’ |
| 15 | As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller ! |
| 16 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 17 | For the moment , suffice it to say that I take a skeptical view of the structural analyses offered . |
| 18 | I take a crude conception of compliance as a starting-point , since it is clear that , in factory or farm , money has been spent in response to the existence of water pollution regulation . |
| 19 | But I rely on stocking up whenever I visit the States — I take an empty suitcase and bring it back full ’ |
| 20 | I take an absent-minded sip from the mug beside me . |
| 21 | Zimbabwe 's support for re-opened trade is echoed by other southern African states , which take a similar view of the ivory ban [ see elephant article in this issue ] . |
| 22 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 23 | There are organisations which take a positive approach to creative thinking and build it into their staff development structure by organising creative days or even weeks . |
| 24 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 25 | You take a good look inside your heart and you 'll see the image of the boss . ’ |
| 26 | Basically , you take a good slug of tequila ( ice cold if poss ) and add a splash of lime juice , then top up a five-ounce glass with champagne — or Sainsbury 's Asti Spumante , whichever comes first to hand . |
| 27 | If contracts are n't exchanged , think carefully before you take a bridging loan . |
| 28 | If you take a facial expression anyone of the seven dwarfs and you want to try and give a dramatic idea how to present that face or that attitude to do it just by standing there without curtains opening on you and all that sort of thing it 's quite diffi , it 's quite difficult ! |
| 29 | Which rather proves a point that in fact it was a low period , and therefore if you take a low period historically , which is er includes a a boom in inverted commas , within that , then overall you 're going to end up with a very low figure er in total . |
| 30 | All the things that you take a curious interest in when you are lying under a car after a road accident , waiting for the ambulance to arrive and thinking that you 'd far rather be anywhere else but there . |