Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In future you take preventative measures . |
| 2 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
| 3 | At home they took such things without comment . |
| 4 | His 69 Test wickets cost 38.72 each , and against England he took 28 wickets at 43 — expensive , but good enough to put him high on the list of all-rounders . |
| 5 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Right , when I went to Turkey , I had three jabs before I went away and every two days I took two tablets . |
| 8 | The other poem which Coleridge wrote during his retreat , and the circumstances of its composition , have entered the mythology of English literary history : while staying at the Culbone farmhouse he took three grains of opium to relieve what he variously described as ‘ a dysentery ’ or ‘ a slight indisposition ’ , and in the deep reverie which followed composed two or three hundred lines of poetry ‘ without any sensation of consciousness of effort ’ . |
| 9 | In this match he took seven wickets , the strangest of which was India 's first-innings stalwart Vengsarkar . |
| 10 | He played for Sussex from 1912 to 1937 , during which period he took 2,211 wickets for Sussex at an individual cost of 17.41 runs . |
| 11 | At Milan he took high-speed films while his animals ran along the force plates . |
| 12 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
| 13 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 14 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 15 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 16 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 17 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 18 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 19 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 20 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 21 | In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects . |
| 22 | So what I would like to suggest , on this , on this one occasion only , and without any , setting precedents for the future either at this congress or future congresses , that we make an exception , and that in this particular deb debate we take additional speakers . |
| 23 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 24 | And with Speak overcoming a nervous start -he took 33 minutes to get off the mark to hit a string of boundaries , the pair put on 141 in less than 30 overs . |
| 25 | Although symptoms can be controlled in most patients it takes several weeks for maximal effect and prolonged relief requires higher radiation dose regimes . |
| 26 | Within two hours of the Chancellor 's message we took three orders for new BMW 's . |
| 27 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 28 | Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease . |
| 29 | In just over an hour he took five wickets , Ambrose chipped in with the other two , and England were all out for 93 . |
| 30 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |