Example sentences of "[verb] take [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's clear that ace coach Eddie Futch has taken a shine to him . |
| 2 | ‘ Black Will has taken a fancy to your little brother — what think you of that ! |
| 3 | All right , he is very busy , one could understand a degree of impatience ; but this girl is in a bad way , she has taken a knife to her room , she sees blood before her eyes . |
| 4 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 5 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid Colonel Fagg has taken an objection to you , dear boy , ’ said Gooseneck to Amiss that lunch-time . |
| 7 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 8 | Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has . |
| 9 | It is the first time the inspectorate has taken the board to court for an alleged lapse of safety . |
| 10 | A MAN who has taken the town to his heart since moving to Darlington 12 years ago has double cause for celebration this week . |
| 11 | ‘ Daddy has taken the van to Mr Sparks . |
| 12 | If they want to take the opportunity to erm move to Newcastle , to be near their relatives , they 'll have that choice as well , and it 's if we have to make difficult choices of this kind , then it 's more — I 'm sorry to keep using the word logical , but it is — it 's logical to choose this one than to choose one of the remoter homes in the county that serves a local populace where there is no alternative . |
| 13 | They want to take the matter to a public inquirey , in the hope that one way or another , their bacon will be saved . |
| 14 | They want to take the matter to a public inquiry , in the hope that one way or another , their bacon will be saved . |
| 15 | You will need to take the application to its last stage within a year , which will cost around £120 . |
| 16 | Costain is also expected to take a pick-axe to its dividend , only a year after its £77 million rights issue . |
| 17 | ‘ You see , Roger , ’ he commented , ‘ you were expected to take the road to Dover whilst I was bound for Scotland . |
| 18 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 19 | He moved to take the figure to twenty . |
| 20 | He promised to take the cast to him in the morning , and I arranged to call at his office at noon to learn what he had discovered from the dentist . |
| 21 | Just imagine taking the family to most of our football games . |
| 22 | She 'd taken a shine to Tom Rudge whom she now knew to be an apprentice fitter , as was Cyril , his mate . |
| 23 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 24 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 25 | Once , she 'd taken a hammer to the headlamp of his motorcycle . |
| 26 | She 'd taken a liking to Silvia and had no wish to betray her and get her into trouble with her quarrelsome cousin . |
| 27 | Moved by the verdict , Mr Donnellan 's mother said she was proud he 'd taken the case to the police in order to clear himself . |
| 28 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 29 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 30 | A high-school student found pieces of the mural in a container for construction debris , contacted the federal government and was instructed to take the work to a specialised restorer , Hiram Hoelzer . |