Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my studies go on , Music GCSE is just one of the nine exams I take next May ( 1994 ) , then I would like to do ‘ A ’ -level music , and hopefully , Music at University . |
| 2 | Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld . |
| 3 | I recognise them and with each recognition I take some comfort . |
| 4 | ‘ As an optimist you take first prize , Aunt . ’ |
| 5 | In future you take preventative measures . |
| 6 | If you want a bigger car you take another test . |
| 7 | In all probability not a single fox will live or die as a consequence of any vote we take this afternoon . |
| 8 | In drawing up their lists they take great care to achieve a balance that reflects the diversity of the electorate 's concerns . |
| 9 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The King of Portugal offered to raise him to the title of Count Torre Bella on condition he took Portuguese nationality . |
| 12 | At home they took such things without comment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 15 | Then from her robe she took another chip , silvery and translucent and twice the size of the others . |
| 16 | However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Right , when I went to Turkey , I had three jabs before I went away and every two days I took two tablets . |
| 19 | I took a retirement I took early retirement coming in the |
| 20 | For an overview we took each party 's average score across the four party images , and each leader 's average score across the twelve leader images . |
| 21 | The level of SR activity declined sharply and in the pre-war period they took less advantage than did the SDs of the opportunities for legal activity . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ These days it takes two people 's wages to keep one household going , ’ observed Bernard . |
| 24 | In this match he took seven wickets , the strangest of which was India 's first-innings stalwart Vengsarkar . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At Milan he took high-speed films while his animals ran along the force plates . |
| 27 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
| 28 | I took erm bank the other day I took hundred quid out |
| 29 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 30 | 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 . |