Example sentences of "[adv] to take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Stock Exchange chief executive , the ignominy of having cost the City several hundred million pounds was reason enough to take the long walk . |
| 2 | The bodkins , which were large enough to take the thin string for the buttons , were much too short to reach through the stuffing . |
| 3 | Mashair is progressing well and could be good enough to take the Listed O & K Troy Stakes . |
| 4 | What Peano had suggested was that it might be possible , not to take the simple ideas with which people had hitherto operated in mathematics as ultimate , but to derive them from something simpler still . |
| 5 | On the evidence before him Mr Patten had decided not to take the listed building enforcement action needed . |
| 6 | Should you decide to go that way , it is imperative not to take the main road , the N10 ( let alone the adjacent motorway ) , but to turn sea wards , to the right , in Ciboure , once you have crossed the Nivelle , and drive along the Corniche Basque . |
| 7 | From time to time I read about the views of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , ( Mr. Dobson ) but I was also interested to read over my cornflakes on Saturday morning the Labour party briefing to the effect that we were not to take the hon. Gentleman too seriously . |
| 8 | The rear of the standing male is slotted vertically to take the folded iron blade ( now missing ) . |
| 9 | This cost them the lead , and though they recovered well they could n't stop a second Risley boat , crewed by husband and wife team and , slipping through to take the chequered flag after five circuits . |
| 10 | another winner yesterday was Gary Chapman of Chinnor … he roared home to take the chequered flag in the latest round of the formula one super karting championship at Little Rissington in Gloucestershire … |
| 11 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 12 | Another winner at the weekend was the Oxfordshire based rider David O'Connor who rode home to take the big prize at the British Open Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park . |
| 13 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 14 | At about half past six Stephen set out to take the crinkle-crankle path up the fell , the way he had brought the policemen three weeks before . |
| 15 | Robb , the brilliant 20-year-old from Liverpool bidding to be the youngest-ever to take the two-lap crown , was always off the pace in the 800 metres , won by Kenyan William Tanui . |
| 16 | My usual practice when visiting a patient with an acute febrile illness was to leave a prescription for the appropriate conventional drug ( usually an antibiotic ) , while at the same time administering the most appropriate homoeopathic remedy with the advice to the patient — or the parents , if the patient was a child — to continue to take the homoeopathic remedy but that if there was no improvement in two to four hours then to take the conventional drug . |
| 17 | The fascination of writing is the attempt to render personal experience into objective beauty and understanding , how to take the fleeting run of life and suspend it , turn it to something tangible , capable of being perused , of being learnt from by others , beginning with the passionate subjective , ending in the dispassionate objective . |
| 18 | Telnitz is some way ahead of you ; we expect the forces there to take the initial impact of the assault . ’ |
| 19 | However , defending champion Lyons was in top form and went on to take the chequered flag for the second year running . |
| 20 | Speaking on Feb. 27 , Schwarzkopf confirmed that allied forces could have gone on to take the Iraqi capital had they been so ordered . |
| 21 | Are there any circumstances in which the Home Secretary would feel it right to take the honourable course and resign from the office which he discharges so inadequately ? |
| 22 | As , like Pontius Pilate , the ancestors gladly wash their hands of the sordid business of administering justice , witchcraft readily steps forward to take the necessary action , acquiring in the process an even more clearly defined moralizing character . |
| 23 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 24 | TODD ELDREDGE , the 18-year-old former world junior champion , skated superbly to take the overall lead after the original programme at the Skate Electric UK International at Richmond Ice Rink last night . |