Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] take the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 2 | Some people only have to take the faintest whiff of the entrance hall of a hospital to be sharply transported back in time to relive a traumatic hospital experience ( endured during childhood perhaps ) ; they may feel shaky or even nauseous . |
| 3 | You 'll not want to take the little green job , the traffic 's awful in the middle . |
| 4 | Most radio stations in non-NPN states had already stopped taking the national news from FRCN in Lagos , and so it is probable that they too ignored the event . |
| 5 | The Alliance were briefly the controlling party in local government and just missed taking the Parliamentary seat at the 1987 election . |
| 6 | I did not dare take the whole brandy bottle , so I poured some into a smaller bottle to take away with me . |
| 7 | It is proof enough that Tom Jones is not going to take the easy path that most of his generation would choose . |
| 8 | it does it moves attention away just takes takes the little bit of the tension off you so you can do that as well . |
| 9 | TASS argued that they had nothing to withdraw , not having taken the original decision to strike . |
| 10 | The Labour Party was still expected to take the leading part , an agitation being started for an emergency Labour Conference to discuss the Alliance . |
| 11 | ‘ The motivation has to come from within and he also needs to take the right approach when he 's away from Anfield , ’ he added . |
| 12 | They will also need to take the same long-term view . |
| 13 | As the only boat in Division C she wins that but is also expected to take the joint C and D prize . |
| 14 | They were Black Michael 's men , probably coming to take the dead body of Josef away . |
| 15 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 16 | It also managed to take the Famous People Playing On Our Record concept to new and unlikely levels . |
| 17 | Use the accessory adaptor by itself with a wallpaper scraper and your Steamatic can also help take the hard work out of wallpaper stripping . |
| 18 | He eventually decided to take the latest letter round to the proper 27 The Grove . |
| 19 | But there 's something in even the very best of us which would really prefer to take the easy way out , if that 's at all possible . |
| 20 | Trailing 2–1 after the foursomes Ireland never really threatened to take the four points they needed from the singles . |
| 21 | George Raft , originally set to take the non-speaking title role , turned down the offer before shooting , reportedly because of ill health , and was replaced by Cesar Romero , in what was barely a cameo . |
| 22 | ‘ We did n't want to take the obvious Beatles quotes which most serious Beatles collectors will have , ’ explains Jim . |
| 23 | If you drive yourself fairly hard in most areas of your life , it does n't hurt to take the easy option in your leisure time . ’ |
| 24 | Akram said : ‘ I did n't need to take the new ball before tea because the old ball began to swing . |
| 25 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 26 | Many people do not like working in an atmosphere of petty theft , and while they may not actually inform on their colleagues , they might well have taken the first opportunity to leave . |
| 27 | Not infrequently he wished his penis did n't have to take the entire responsibility for the success or failure of the operation . |
| 28 | She had n't wanted to take the four months ' pay from Nicolo , but he 'd been coldly adamant . |
| 29 | He had been invited either to refute the allegations publicly or to withdraw from the elections , and reportedly chose to take the second option . |
| 30 | There were some women who simply had to take the unfortunate literally to their breast . |