Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's the opportunity to take a cookery course as an add-on , and Sue 's first students have requested another course this year on the role of the evening meal . |
| 2 | When I was about eight years old , the Beatles thing happened and the guitar took a place in the panorama of western culture that attracted me . |
| 3 | ( These included four symphonies , five piano concertos and various chamber works , of which the prince took a selection , but declined to grant the retainer . ) |
| 4 | Mrs Robinson invited the prince to take a seat and he chatted privately to them for several minutes . |
| 5 | But of course that is a discussion which would be quite proper and er for us to have and for the board to take a view on and er for funders to comment on and so on and so forth . |
| 6 | The judge agreed that ‘ it would be a denial of justice ’ if the case took a year , but was told by Mr Robertson that an appeal would be dealt with this week . |
| 7 | In the old What Personal Computer office , prior to the move , things were a little , er … informal , and I was worried about the cable taking a pounding . |
| 8 | The foot took a step and came down again . |
| 9 | Has the recession taken a toll on the ADAA ? |
| 10 | In the case of R v Spurge [ 1961 ] 2 All ER 688 it was held that it was at least careless driving where the driver took a vehicle on a road , knowing there was a defect such as defective steering or brakes . |
| 11 | Roll , roll , roll , the spliff take a look |
| 12 | He launched his Wear Borders Knitwear campaign in Edinburgh and promised to wear sweaters until the industry took a turn for the better . |
| 13 | Baloo the bear takes a shine to his mancub friend Mowgli in The Jungle Book . |
| 14 | PAMELA:Has not the Countess taken a house or lodgings at Tunbridge ? |
| 15 | In Bailiffs of Dunwich v. Sterry , the plaintiffs had the right to wrecks at Dunwich and the defendant took a cask of whisky from a wreck before the plaintiffs could get it . |
| 16 | In this case police officers saw the defendant take a flick knife from his pocket and give it to a friend to inspect before returning it to his pocket . |
| 17 | Gilts , after four days of rising quotations , softened an eighth as the pound took a breather . |
| 18 | The priest took a handkerchief from the pocket of his black cassock and mopped his forehead . |
| 19 | Todays toil to lower the level of the brook takes a bitmore than one man and his dog , but the necessary speed of the work means thispiece of Georgian architecture will be hidden once more in a few days when the brook 's allowed to flow through here again . |
| 20 | All you need to do is drill a hole into the back of the engine to take a piece of thin wire , then fold the banner in half and glue it to the wire with PVA glue . |
| 21 | Bore a shallow recess with the winged bit and , using the central pilot hole as a guide , drill the workpiece to take a steel screw that matches the one on the back of the nameplate . |
| 22 | He installed me in the base-camp , an old redbrick gardener 's cottage with roses climbing up the side , offered me the keys to the crew bus so that I could pick up something to eat in nearby Worksop , and even had the foresight to take a pint of milk from the warden 's fridge so that I 'd be able to make a cup of coffee in the morning . |
| 23 | The music ended and the girl took a bow and disappeared behind some plastic curtains . |
| 24 | Swayed by the drawing of her breath , the girl took a moment to dream , then said with a far-off resonance , ‘ You don ’ spell dat , ma'am , you sez it . ’ |
| 25 | The girl takes a punch as well , and I hit some bastard with a chair . |
| 26 | ( July 24-Aug 23 ) Your ruler the Sun takes a swipe at Neptune on October 2 and then Jupiter on the 3rd . |
| 27 | Perhaps this was the main anxiety , and the main reason for the RHA taking a role in local decision-making . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 29 | The TUC withheld its traditional endorsement of Labour , and Mr Bill Jordan , president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and one of a small group of TUC leaders who met Mr Kinnock every month before the election , even found time during the campaign to take a holiday in the Canary Islands . |
| 30 | But it also asserts that parents may need assistance in exercising their responsibilities , and here the Act takes a quantum leap from the old , restricted notions of ‘ prevention ’ , to a more positive outreaching duty of ‘ support for children and families ’ . |