Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 17-year-old Middlesbrough all-rounder took a hat-trick as Zimbabwe B were dismissed for 230 on the opening day of a four-day match at Harare Sports Club . |
| 2 | No , er I think it would be wise to separate the provision for increments from pay awards , they are quite separate er items of expenditure , the increments I refer to here , these are the annual increments which the County Council as an employers contract to take an individual as he addresses through his particular salary rate , will that |
| 3 | We soon reached an Inn at a place called Hardraw , and descending from our vehicles , after warming ourselves by the cottage fire we walked up the brook side to take a view of a third waterfall … |
| 4 | The Brooklyn Museum took a 12% cut , trimmed salaries across the board , cancelled at least one major exhibition , and closed for two weeks . |
| 5 | I was in the kitchen when he played it back on the TV — I remember that day so well — and he called me into the living room to take a look . |
| 6 | Let the Pyramid Pooper take a hike just this once , eh ? |
| 7 | Andy Robinson ( left ) and Neil Back take a breather during the Leicester v Barbarians game . |
| 8 | Unable to get up its outside flight of steps , they lobbed grenades on to the gun platform , killing the gun commander and men drawing ammunition inside the tower , before moving on along the harbour wall to take a 40mm gun position . |
| 9 | This type of contact requires local knowledge and that the neighbourhood policeman take an interest in people in his area . |
| 10 | Picnic Area Take a break . |
| 11 | David Quest took a forkful of Ginny 's scrambled eggs . |
| 12 | SATURDAY Nick Hancock Hugely enjoyable blast-off comedian who , like some smirking , behind-the-sheds schoolboy takes a list of his pet hates out of his pocket , lays them out and talks you through them one by one . |
| 13 | John Warren reports that dragon boat racing took a step forward when the formation of an international federation took place in Hong Kong in June . |
| 14 | When you are satisfied with your interview structure take a copy for each candidate and keep it with their application form and the additional questions which arose from it . |
| 15 | Then the burial party took a pace to the right and began digging the grave of another known soldier . |
| 16 | The first evening we arrived , after digging in , a few of us from Brigade H.Q took a walk through the village and found the local café . |
| 17 | Roads campaign takes a step forward |
| 18 | The company 's computer-related business is carried out through a subsidiary , MT Computer Rt , in which IBM Corp took a minority stake in April 1992 . |
| 19 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 20 | Adrian Littlejohn had given United side a 61st minute lead to make up for two earlier misses from Brian Deane as the home side took a grip on the game . |
| 21 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 22 | They wanted induction and training for all management committee members and for the management committee to take a lead in fund raising . |
| 23 | The birth was fine , the bonding process took a couple of days longer , and I felt such a surge of energy rushing back into my system that I decided to open a shop at the end of the first week , and did in fact do so six weeks after the birth . |
| 24 | MIKE ATHERTON 's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today , when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch . |
| 25 | Later , we read that ‘ nothing … shall prevent a constable delaying taking a person who has been arrested to a police station if the presence of that person elsewhere is necessary in order to carry out such investigations as it is reasonable to carry out immediately ’ . |
| 26 | Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner . |
| 27 | Any model struck by a cannon ball takes a strength 10 hit resolved in the normal manner . |
| 28 | The British government was too embroiled in its Suez adventure to take a stand , or to have any moral ground to stand on . |
| 29 | Top pop quiz to take a break |
| 30 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |