Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get married in a registry office , which I did , you do n't say an , in England , you do n't say anything other than that you take this chap to be your husband , and you interpret that to be as you wish . |
| 2 | Er so what I 'm looking for is to try and see that we do all we can to make sure that the second half of ninety three we take full advantage of everything that we 've got so that we do actually rapidly increase our productivity in the second half of the year . |
| 3 | If your business is larger it takes more organisation and record keeping to know what the magic formula is for each customer . |
| 4 | I am sure I took great pains with you , alas , but to very little purpose . |
| 5 | Make sure you take enough tablets — at least one for each night . |
| 6 | In 1964 he took 113 wickets at an average 19.27 ; in a 185-match first class career his 461 victims cost 24.27 apiece . |
| 7 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 8 | Gillian snorted as she repeated her husband 's gallantry , but it was plain she took some pleasure in it too . |
| 9 | Eliot remarked that as far as he was concerned he took that paper chiefly for the crossword and the company reports . |
| 10 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
| 11 | From the rich they take larger sums by threatening to strip naked unless paid to leave ; terrified middle-class party-givers will give them anything as long as they go quickly . |
| 12 | This exercise is a refinement of the one carried out for the whole district in that it takes more account of local needs and provides additional information over and above the grades of staff required . |
| 13 | In 1955 he took 175 wickets , which is still a club record . |
| 14 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm surprised she took such pills at all . |
| 16 | In 1927 he took first-class honours in his final examination . |
| 17 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 18 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |