Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I no longer take any interest in the company , nor , although co-founder , do I take any responsibility for the success or failure of present or future coaching programmes , standards of coaching or the selection of coaches ( Teaching Professionals ) at Sutton Junior Tennis Centre . |
| 2 | No no , this fat old bird was round the back of Bunrannoch House , when I took wee Alex for a walk . |
| 3 | I took that view for many good reasons , partly because I always believed that it would play far too much into the hands of the Government . |
| 4 | Zampolli summed up the curiously optimistic mood the industry found itself in , post-war , at Geneva : ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ during the war I took three orders for the car . |
| 5 | Linda , 51 , says : ‘ I took this picture for myself — for the beauty and the magic of it . ’ |
| 6 | All right , so I took full responsibility for the organisation of the sale , but there is no way I can be blamed for the outcome . |
| 7 | Although the exercises are ‘ original ’ ( unless otherwise stated ) , I take little credit for them . |
| 8 | ‘ I take full responsibility for the actions and policies of my Chancellor , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Maybe those are the questions we should asking , rather than you know , do you take this man for your husband . |
| 10 | Can you take some bloods for chemistry , and we 'll start her on streptokinase . |
| 11 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 12 | After this , the school itself took complete responsibility for sex education and , as was mooted in public debate in the late 1980s , they operated a system of ‘ opting in ’ rather than ‘ opting out ’ by which parents were asked whether they wished their children to participate . |
| 13 | Star performers included Bill Holland of KPMG Peat Marwick who scored 95 of the Institute 's 250 for five wickets declared , and captain Feroze Dada of Freeman & Partners who took four wickets for 70 . |
| 14 | Lurgan also went to Dublin and won , eliminating CYM by a five wicket margin helped by a superb all round performance from Craig Irwin who took two wickets for 24 and then hit a not out 60 . |
| 15 | England captain/wicketkeeper Alec Stewart congratulates Chris Lewis who took three wickets for 43 runs on the third day of the Test . |
| 16 | The object of the Act was to protect the minority of unwary consumers from possible exploitation by the minority of unscrupulous lenders who took unfair advantage for their own gain of their ‘ victims ’ ignorance . |
| 17 | Anne who took full responsibility for the care of her husband , David , who had suffered a stroke , needed a rest for a couple of days a week as she was suffering from arthritis . |
| 18 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 19 | Under the last Labour government , the minister of state in the Department of Health and Social Security who took particular responsibility for social security , Mr Stanley Orme , was a Cabinet minister . |
| 20 | VOLUNTEERS — volunteers of one sort or another are constantly needed — today we are appealing for volunteers to assist those of our teachers who take specialised classes for the disabled , elderly , handicapped , deaf etc . |
| 21 | ‘ Should we take some bloods for chemistry , Dr Reynolds ? ’ she asked mildly . |
| 22 | No Epigas screw-in cartridges are available other than in Grenoble , and we took enough meths for the Trangia . |
| 23 | Within two hours of the Chancellor 's message we took three orders for new BMW 's . |
| 24 | The best gamekeepers are former poachers and no one took old Shallot for a ride . |
| 25 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 26 | It helps each one to take some responsibility for worship . |
| 27 | Today we take organized travel for granted but Cook 's approach was revolutionary . |
| 28 | Not at all , the they ta , they take nine tutorial for science tests would n't we ? |
| 29 | The decision finally is theirs and they take full responsibility for that decision , and may erm in exceptional circumstances not follow the advice of their Clerk . |
| 30 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |