Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would follow the police officers escorting the prisoner or prisoners up a flight of stairs into the small but impressive court-room , where I took a chair reserved for reporters at counsel 's table . |
| 2 | Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch . |
| 3 | ‘ I think the young man is right , ’ said Mrs Grandison ‘ I do n't remember seeing you take a pudding . |
| 4 | I follow Rachel up the stairs , feeling like I just paid money in one of those Soho hotels where you take a girl and hire a room by the hour . |
| 5 | The ticket hall had one of those systems where you take a number from a machine by the door and wait for it to appear above one of the ticket windows . |
| 6 | where you take a picture of a building and you |
| 7 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 8 | And , crucially , you 'll need to decide if you want a discretionary ( self-select ) PEP where you take the decisions . |
| 9 | where you take the animals , you come out right , and there 's a butchers i n't there ? , cross over road , big shops on corner , it 's on that block |
| 10 | Or you take no action , in which case no one else will know that the clause is unenforceable . |
| 11 | The manager is the manager because he or she takes the job on . |
| 12 | This area became our most precious place ; where we took the children to teach them how to fish ; to watch black , and red-throated divers , golden eagle , golden plover , greenshank and dunlin ; where we could walk endless miles with only the sky and the wind for company . |
| 13 | Back at the hotel , instead of heading for the bedroom , she led him to the bar , where they took a couple of glasses of malt and fell to chatting with some locals who 'd ‘ just dropped by to have a nightcap ’ despite the fact it was gone midnight and they all had work to go to in the morning . |
| 14 | Be sure that you spell out specific words and deeds : if a teenager complains about a younger sibling , ask him or her to take the child on an outing . |
| 15 | As this is no longer a public holiday , many people arrange either to work on a Bank Holiday in order to have this day off or they take a day of their holiday allocation . |
| 16 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 17 | or they take the house back |
| 18 | Geoff Griffin pictured on a recent trip to Lord 's , where he took a Test hat-trick and was no-balled for throwing |
| 19 | As a student at Columbia University , New York — where he took a degree and a doctorate — and subsequently as a teacher of biochemistry at Boston University , he continued to write in his spare time . |
| 20 | A graduate of Birmingham University , where he took a BSc in coal-mining , he joined Manchester Collieries Ltd , in 1944 . |
| 21 | He was educated at Eton and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he took a pass degree and gained a BA in 1883 . |
| 22 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
| 23 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 24 | ‘ The simple answer , I suppose , is that I take a look at myself and at the world around me . ’ |
| 25 | They even demanded that I take a Wassermann test in order to be sure that I was n't suffering from syphilis . |
| 26 | ‘ It is only fair that I take the criticism . |
| 27 | This is taking up time , but if hon. Members are alleging that I took a point of order from the hon. Member for Surbiton ( Mr. Tracey ) , I did so because the Chair has to hear the point of order if it is alleged that something unparliamentary happened during the course of Question Time . |
| 28 | It was for that reason that I took the stand I did , and put forward the views that I did . |
| 29 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 30 | That I took the commandments quite literally was not surprising . |