Example sentences of "[adj] he take the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was particularly interested in infectious diseases and public health , and in 1881 he took the Cambridge University diploma in public health .
2 In 1858 he took the London MB and became medical superintendent of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots ; and in 1859 he took the MD and the MRCP and was appointed assistant physician to the London Hospital .
3 In a speech at the launch of the ss Trevethoe in February 1913 he took the opportunity publicly to declare that he was in favour of a conciliation board , and that he was not alone in this conviction .
4 One is at the end of Gaudier-Brzeska ( 1916 ) ; another is in a Criterion article of 1937 , ‘ D'Artagnan Twenty Years After ’ ; in that year appeared Polite Essays , which includes Pound 's review of Binyon 's translation of the Inferno ( originally in The Criterion for April 1934 ) ; there are two tributes to Binyon in Guide to Kulchur ( 1938 ) ; in 1948 at St Elizabeth 's Pound was still pressing Binyon on the attention of Charles Olson ; and as late as 1958 he took the opportunity of Pavannes and Divagations to get back into print his appreciative note on The Flight of the Dragon .
5 In 1858 he took the London MB and became medical superintendent of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots ; and in 1859 he took the MD and the MRCP and was appointed assistant physician to the London Hospital .
6 First he takes the city council to task for presenting the LET scheme as a fait accompli , criticising it for ‘ accepting without question LET's objective of redevelopment in the form of 500-metre-long , inward-looking building ’ .
7 In 1871 he took the yacht , Sampson , to Svalbard , to the Seven Islands , reaching latitude 81° 30' N. In 1872 he could not get beyond the north-west capes of Spitsbergen .
8 In October 1861 he took the matter out of the hands of the old guard and transferred it to keen reformers .
9 and then on top of that he took the battery off Pat 's car and it fell over in the front so all the acid burnt the carpet !
10 When he 'd done that he took the cigarette out of his mouth , tapped some ash off and studied the glowing end .
11 On 26 August 1805 he took the arms and the name of Crichton .
12 At last he took the train to Amsterdam .
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